Bivouac

1

Their knees touched at night
when they lay on their sides.

The pressure of the bony plates
was a wall

or the pressure was union.

She had relaxed
against it.

2

Meaning is sensed relation.

The body’s sensed relation
to space?

A body’s well-being
in relation
to an environment.

She ripped a feather
from her tail
and placed it in the nest.

She discarded this
and extracted a second