origin myth

a woman lies on her bed, hanging on to her tiny egg. men with beards and glasses and syringes and test results tell her it won't stick around. the woman disputes findings, denies instructions, refuses to move, sends her man on errands, waits. four months of stillness later, the doctors check the heartbeat and say: you won this one, missy.

things i haven't taken photographs of

• a man with a beautiful black birthmark masking his left eye
• a woman's bowed legs poking out of her beautiful schwe-schwe skirt
• a man dark as the night speaking animatedly to a blue doorway
• jacarandas in bloom
• jupiter, venus and the moon