[the Battle Of] Alesia

starvation starts with a body to fill the cavernous hollows formed by out-jutting ribs and Ethiopian belly: thin but distended a body to warm the concussed and frightened; the meadow lark lying still on the dew soaked morn grass hidden but yellow unnoticed and asleep three hours. alone. silent in the reeds while the snake rustles: sneaking uneventfully through a downy, Moorish fog father in the rocking chair watching four, unaware of his vacant, vaulted cathedral gut shrinking, sinking - sewn up shut. starvation always starts with a body.