Believing comes after there were coverings who can believe that we were born without them he she or it wailing back the first breath from a stark reflection raw and upside-down early but already not original into the last days and then some way past them the body that we are assured is more than what covers it is kept covered out of habit which is a word for dress out of custom which is an alteration of the older word costume out of decency which is handed down from a word for what is fitting apparently we believe in the words and through them but we long beyond them for what is unseen what remains out of reach what is kept covered with colors and sizes we hunger for what is undoubted yet dubious known to be different and our fabrics tell of difference we dress in difference calling it ours