Inklilngs 2024

that the Earth is a sphere. but — no. that’s a lie too. the Earth is pear-shaped. I read it once, so it has to be true. do you think the explorers thought they would find the key to eternal life in the land beyond the sunset? to escape the judgment of the gilded scales — no to overturn them altogether gold flashing end over end, and the notes to love songs fall off the staff, toppled by the weight of a heart, and in the ocean the cephalopods that represent our hopes and dreams swim contentedly in the depths, unaware that the soul they were once attached to is gone — and the birds still fly amidst the waves of the not-ocean, attached to nothing and no one and all is well. The Ones Who Run Sophia Romanov Imber ’24