Video
The Cell
From womb to selfhood: a short reflection on how identity—body, name, story—is constructed as a new enclosure after birth, and how this book aims not to remove that enclosure but to enlarge it.
Transcript
You have done this before.
Your first cell was soft and dark
and gave you everything.
You left it naked, screaming,
with no memory.
The first thing you did on the other side
was begin to build.
Body. Name. Story.
A new cell, roomier than the last.
This book is about that cell.
How it is built.
Why the walls are needed.
What happens when they crack.
The book will not take you out.
But it will make the cell larger.