the tessellated tile floor of my existence, once alabaster white has sullied under the steps of a muddied life spent wading in the river bank attempting to coalesce a series of seemingly random events into a fabricated web spun of the finest thread. only to find the ephemeral now a fractious flowing river so violent and cold from the melting spring snow, whitewater breaks against primordial stone like titan thunder atop olympus, rattling our bones because legends follow entropy but chronos begets chaos in mythology.