<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><header style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><h1 itemprop="headline" class="entry-title articleHeadline" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; "><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Reckoner</span></font></h1></header><div class="post-content" style="margin-top: 36px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">You open your mouth—wide, wider—<br>and voilà, a foggy forest<br></span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-hyphens: auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">slips out. Open again and spit<br>a castle. And so on…for a moat,<br>a stable, and the ever<br>sallying-forth dead aunties.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-hyphens: auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Sure, you can spew a distant fire-chucking<br>volcano. Or blow a spit-bubble<br>with a baby in it. What language,<br>what words will said baby let fly<br>when you’re nowhere? When you’re<br>roaming <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">her</i> dreams with <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">her</i> dear deceased<br>(& why were <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">hers</i> all ball-gowned up?),<br>when you’re a dirt speck in an earth clod<br>in a world that’s eventuated…back to<br>warlessness, back and back to only rats<br>in the underground, back back back<br>to fowl becoming fish.</span></p><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Nance Van Winckel</div></div></body></html>