She says, look.
The world is ending.
The bridges are unbuilding themselves.

He was enough; enough for this life, this climate, this iceless hell. You must be big, to blubber yourself against change.

Beside the nation, there is the / Body.
Beyond the / Border, there is a / Body of water.
Besides the / Blood, there is the heart / Beating.

this is not to say
the bones of memory are fragile
but that the ground too
tears itself apart

Your body carries the marks of a fight from many moons ago, and you think that if you close your eyes these marks will heal. / Close your eyes. / Go to number 2.

you were warned, that your greedy digging,
your clawing fingers sinking into the earth, was just
like shooting up