Pushed away: Noodles

It organises its surroundings around its own appetite, and does so without much awareness that this is occurring, since the arrangement has held since childhood and has never met sustained resistance. A mother who over-supplied, or who was absorbed in her own convenience and bought quiet with indulgence, established the appetite as the household's operating principle, and an appetite that has always governed does not experience itself as governing. What it asks for is one occasion where somebody else's preference sets the terms and the disappointment is simply felt.

What I want tends to become what's happening.

It echoes Ilsebill, whose husband went back to the water for her again and again, and who wanted the cottage, then the castle, then the throne, and then to command the sun and moon. The form implies a task: to stop before the next trip to the shore.