perse
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twenty-four
november 23
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persephone amavi
she came here often. toeing the line, the border of the worlds, neither living nor dead. she always wanted to find the holy and liminal spaces, follow the path until she's lost, blind but ardent.
( read 'she' as: elysia, or in the alternative, persephone retracing her mother's steps )
cresting that threshold horizon between here and there, then and now, mt. silver is the stage and this is a the conference for the ghosts. the dying boy, the spirit, the echo. remember the order and repeat it back.
he's on the wrong side of the line, scream piercing again like a declaration, not a plea. it's a signal fire demanding an audience to witness him, not a saviour to halt the journey. she comes anyway; faceless in persephone's memories, always blinding and radiant, the light of her more real than the physical sum of her parts.
her shrewd hands hover over him, and the daughter can't look at him, at what's left of him. she's always been characterised by a fear of that vulnerability and the truth is she doesn't want him to see her cry. she can see his bone, as brilliant white as her mother's hair. she keeps him alive, and the girl isn't sure how. by what divine rites can he still draw breath?
she's speaking, her voice distant and pleasant and not meant for her; questions to keep him tethered to the living. would you have kept going? elysia marvels, not needing to hear an answer because that much was clear. she tells him to rest, that his journey is over now.
and in hindsight persephone was unsure if she was expecting him to return to them, to the place where the crossings from one world to the next happen.
dying, dead, designed to die. repeat the words like an invocation, retrace mt. silver's paths. not a maze with abrupt ends, but a labyrinth; the spiral path that, unicursal, eventually always lead them back to each another in some form.
( read 'form' as: elysia, persephone, the ghost possessing her body )
FERNANDO SILPH
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