the first inheritance a puncture wound:

where you detach from your mother

an undug grave call it provenance

In one language named life source هوى

eve. the period preceding some say wife/mother of [ ]

but origin can’t be tethered to consequence

an oculus doomed to gape before a mirror

my abdomen rounded a line appeared

from navel to sex linea nigra

text appeared ا the first letter

abjad inferred, ا

mammalian I, matriline

I did not want this look how

it appeared I multiplied

from figment I bore

witness: your body