Distance
Distance, the claw that crushes the bone, exposes the marrow to the relentless sun. Distance, the hammer that covers the shield with sturdy nails, their iron heads scorching the eyes of hostile throngs. Distance, averse to swoons and sieges shuffling as in a slow dance along the thin brittle line between the inscrutable and the banality. Distance, obedient to a particularist law, sowing the earth despite wide turmoils, raising a legacy: an unfurled defiant calyx