What kind of disciple
is the girl who learned
how to splint her own
spine? Who can teach her
anything more about
the pliability of bone?
Where is the day she stood
in the nave of a church
overlooking a sea and found
in herself the ancient hymn
of oceanwater? Where is
the room large enough
to reveal to her this thin
peril between land
and water, between
the crooked tilt of her
body and the salted panic
of waves from which it rises?
