It Was Alive, Though Differently

It had a secret name which in later years came to mean I will continue to stand here. It had a food mouth and a shrieking mouth. Popular wisdom indicated that Its hands could heat stones and that a man could cook meat on those stones. That being said, It had a poverty hand and a riches hand. They were the same hand. A little ways above the hands the mouths spoke together but for two different reasons, like the music was behaving but the orchestra was broken. * Even in less benevolent moments, It was known to use Its own body as a tent and as the gifts inside of the tent. Early people said It had a mother hand and a father hand, and that together they made a clapping sound. Its hands delivered the children from madness. The hands saw the riverbank sliding into the river to make a more shallow river. They scooped the mud up. The hands were giving thanks. * The hands smelled like exodus. The hands were the law. One hand grew older, and the other hand younger. They said, fairly often, We’d like to try that again. Both were restless and wanted rest. One hand said,I will go where you go, while the other hand continued on alone.