END Stone’s Source /61 AFTERWARD - AFTERWORD OPENING I set the steel cage "live trap" to rid my chickens of death and nightmare and found, the next morning, the trap locked shut, the bait gone, and a tuft of raccoon fur along one side where she had pushed and pushed against an invisible weakness toward freedom. She found the open end, out past which this cage maker hoped to limit her dreams and end her coming and going. The opening that draws us: The child to the cardboard box to play,,, the cat to the paper bag,,, the fetus feels toward one exit only which will define it's warm liquid death toward growth. Inside what container does each of us long to escape? And who, for all this coming and going , knows any other purpose: The opening, the invisible spot, out through which a lack of resistance defines for us our freedom. 62