ALL THE BELLIES

A heron is wading through a pond where he spots a small fish swimming at his feet.  He bends down and gobbles it up.  The fish drops into the belly of the heron where it is dark and getting ever darker.  Suddenly, though, he finds himself in another belly where he is born back into the world of form, not as a fish but as a heron.  Back at the pond, the original heron sits in the belly of an alligator where it is growing ever darker.