I love the idea of the body and the earth as a shared archive, of history sleeping in layers inside us both. In this poem when I stand on the road, I’m standing on time and all its embedded bones and memories–a cumulative architecture of experience.

Kathryn Napier Stull is a writer living in Southern California. She holds an MFA from Mills College and her work has appeared in Scrivener Creative Review and the anthology Sierra Songs and Descants, among others. She is currently working on a collection of poems about death and the dreaming body.