She lies down, stretching out across the trunk of a walnut tree cut during the spring.All that's left of its bark are a few shreds, gradually withering away. With her back resting between two ... [+]
How do immortals recognize each other, you ask? By our palimpsest of scars and wrinkles, every inch of skin marked by the shooting of stars, the spinning of the Earth yielding under similarly marred fingertips. By the taste of our mouths, the dust of fallen empires, dead dinosaur cells, and myriad wines' noble rots embedded in the ridges of our tongues sucked clean at last. By the look in our eyes, a glimmer sharp as the edge of a knife that has cut through tender flesh and ripe strawberries alike. A knife that slices you a homecoming feast.