“Make the drawing by sanding with salt

The drawing is a wound

The drawing takes what was

The drawing is a poultice”

The Body becomes wholly regenerated in 7-10 years.

Every cell replaced. 

7 years have now lapsed since He left. The presence of his embodied 

physicality has retreated from me in a palpable exodus. 

It is wretched and violent.

I am abandoned and freed. 

I become teneral* 

as I make the drawing with salt. 

*Teneral: a soft, fragile state that follows moulting