The sense of it all widened and captured her within it, the pains in her body, the pizzicato stings in her neck and spine, the sustained, ongoing ache of tendons bowing over the sharp edges of brittle bones, the contrabass drone of her sorrows and anger and joys, integrated with the light and shadow and color and smell, contrapuntal, syllabic, orchestrated, high and whole.
The sense of it all widened and captured her within it, the pains in her body, the pizzicato stings in her neck and spine, the sustained, ongoing ache of tendons bowing over the sharp edges of brittle bones, the contrabass drone of her sorrows and anger and joys, integrated with the light and shadow and color and smell, contrapuntal, syllabic, orchestrated, high and whole.

