Why does she have to go and try to make 'sense' of it all?
Every time she makes 'sense' of something, she has to 'cross over,'
kicking a hole out of the old boundaries of the self and slipping under or over,
dragging the old skin along, stumbling over it.
...It is only when she is on the other side
and the shell cracks open and the lid from her eyes lifts
that she sees things in a different perspective.
It is only then that she makes the connections, formulates the insights.
It is only then that her consciousness expands a tiny notch,
another rattle appears on the rattlesnake tail
and the added growth slightly alters the sounds she makes."