Words that mean nothing, really, just sound intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch onto something when we're falling.

“I start to follow her, and Alex grabs my hand."I'll find you," he says, watchin…”

“But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers o…”

“For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for …”

“You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above t…”