Sublime

I made this connection and though it was tenuous I was haunted by it. And since I felt so alone that day it became a friend.

On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.

She is an abyss that he can reach into, an empty space for him to fill.

Each one volunteers to be eaten, so others might be spread far afield.

it is the most fundamental act of our species: to sustain the body until time leaves it behind.