The Deep

by Rivers Solomon

That was all remembering was. Prodding them lest they try to move on from things that should not be moved on from. Forgetting was not the same as healing.

Pain is energy. It lights us. This is the most basic premise of our life. Hunger makes us eat. Tiredness causes us to sleep. Pain makes us avenge.

he calls this gathering unauthorized. “Unauthorized by whom?” we ask. “Me!” says Omju. “And who are you?” we ask. We shoo him away as he tries to answer.

These didn’t have to be contradictions. She let the multiple truths exist inside her as a way of meditating.