There is a snail in my wing mirror. A tiny, crawling thing that slithers in the shadowed corner. It thrums with life and sliminess. I could sit there for hours, watching the swirls of calcium carbonate on its shell's surface. I have done. It is not the patterns that enthral me, I’m not one of those fools chasing spirals; no, it’s what sings behind them. Sings that I am beautiful. Sings that I am a home. That I can be fully consumed by what loves me.
I do not know why the snail chose me, but it did. And I think that it always had. The song is loud and beautiful and I am so very afraid. There is a snail in my wing mirror. Perhaps it can soothe my itching soul.