image credit: DHBogucki 2018

Prodding Consciousness

Children’s hands prodding,
explore every boundary
between the body and the universe.
Tasting
Touching
Smelling
Feeling
Listening
To the tickle of spiders feet
along dusty floors.
Witnessing cell division
through the ache of gangly legs.
Rising heat in forming genitals
awakens pulsing rhythms
flowering into grown flesh.
Brains mastering the puzzle of consciousness,
unbound from hormone’s rage.
Free to unite.
Mind
Body
Universe
Become one.

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