In the body, behind the breast, that retromammary space, a small child digs milk-ducts. Prayer is the nipple as flower bud. Prayer is stomach full of feast. This body holds the uterus by invisible wire, wound like a cocoon, this space an altar. You can hear the lips move against the skin. The body stores memories in the suspended knee-cap, behind the shoulder blade, the crease of the neck as it enters the skull. These memories are tightrope walkers— one wrong move and balance becomes holy and empty all at once.