The Caul
An old and difficult word,origin unknown,sounding in English like call,caul begs the questionfrom whom?
The answer to this question surprises.
Unlike marsupials, our pouch is inside(placenta, it’s called),sparing the fetus the perilous crawlover the mother’s fur to the hidden teat inside the pouch without which escape the mother’s immune system would kill it.
Not least of nature’s wonders,the immune system is always on the edge of lethal— just ask anyone suffering from COVID-19experiencing the cytokine storm— and so evolution produced a sacto separate mother and child each from the other,life broken just as it begins,no mending of the break in bodies that die,separating from life cell by self by cell by self.
Simple, then.The call’s from energybillions of years working responding only to space expanding endlessly unfolding tireless explication of hydrogen and heatleaving behind what we call matter,which is the ancient word for mother cauling us who never listen.
An old and difficult word,origin unknown,sounding in English like call,caul begs the questionfrom whom?
The answer to this question surprises.
Unlike marsupials, our pouch is inside(placenta, it’s called),sparing the fetus the perilous crawlover the mother’s fur to the hidden teat inside the pouch without which escape the mother’s immune system would kill it.
Not least of nature’s wonders,the immune system is always on the edge of lethal— just ask anyone suffering from COVID-19experiencing the cytokine storm— and so evolution produced a sacto separate mother and child each from the other,life broken just as it begins,no mending of the break in bodies that die,separating from life cell by self by cell by self.
Simple, then.The call’s from energybillions of years working responding only to space expanding endlessly unfolding tireless explication of hydrogen and heatleaving behind what we call matter,which is the ancient word for mother cauling us who never listen.
Amniotic sac, within placenta, opened during afterbirth examination