Water takes the path of least resistance. Any competent plumber spouts this tried & true logic. Water disobeys. Water wants what water wants. Water claims & claims. If you live in the desert long enough, you become watchful of water. Water makes up 83% of lungs; 74% of brain & heart. Tuning fork of organs. Protective. Even, our watery bones. You meet the saguaro & touch your clavicle in kinship. What you can lug around. How roots tendril inside a body. You wonder how long before the spikes & spindles evolve you.
Before I was a cell, I was a whisper of a cell from another cell. A longing.