Lizzy Burnam 🐞

Here’s what I love 
about being human: 
I get to feel like Jack 
and the Giant 
at the same time. 
I get to feel Jack’s hands 
as if they were my hands, 
bright and nimble 
navigating a green ladder 
to who-knows-where. 
I get to feel the giant’s 
heavy step and long fall
as if I stepped and fell, 
too old and tired 
to want to catch myself. 
I get to feel both: 
The free, roving spark 
of human’s animal ancestry 
and the cynical detachment 
of human intelligence, 
connected by a magic 
the size of a bean.