Anthony is watched by the hawk and eaten by the tick, and tiny mites live in his eyebrows and lashes, and his father is holding a corpse now, in a cave in the ground beneath him. When Jack is in the container, his knees bent, his head to the side, Todd stands and looks at him. This is the quietest peace he has ever seen. The moment when he looks upon Jack, and Jack’s face does not stir. and there will be no resurrection is the last line of the poem, which through all of this has sat in the book pressed shut on the shelf. It might be true, about the resurrection. No sunlight will reach the eyes
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