Before You Were Born

Before you were born, you sloshed around as the cosmic ocean.

When you were conceived, little by little, you were poured into your body.

Water trickling gingerly into an ice cube tray, so as not to overfill it.

You took the shape of that body - the way water takes the shape of a vase.

To live in this world, you slowly solidified, like ice.

Life dropped lesso…