It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over

by Anne de Marcken

Mitchem says this is another way we’re superior – because we are, at the same time, creator and creation. —

Everything is still. I lie still at the center of the hunger that is actually grief,

It is clear there is no simple beginning or simple ending. Every live thing is the history and future of all dead things. Every dead thing is the future of all live things.

I hold the crow in my hand. Do I have to let you go? Even you?

I wish that I had opened my eyes. I wish that I had turned from the window and looked at you in that moment when you were looking at me. This world slipped by me. —