081413 #copperhead Each irregularly rounded or slightly piercing stone presses into your back, your buttocks, the back of your thighs, the coolness under your knees, your ankles, your heels. There's one that hurts there, and you move your left foot one scraping inch. Better. Your spine, each vertebra pulsed by its own individual rock. How long have these rocks been in this river bed? And you? Another star is born. Another imperceptible loss. We will never be just starting out again.