as i live and breathe and as i die and shed: moult, transform, undulate, flourish. a line or two for vitality, for becoming: a lake, a chasm, a riverbed. a line or two for mortality, for becoming: a library, a prison, a crossing. bodhisattva, i drank the sun that morning, golden brew, a potion upon my face. bathing in warm light eyes closed, lungs sky, my blood is a river, mountains for bones. my resonance is vitality. i am becoming; through death and life and through death and through life i alight.