sitting in the dark long enough, your eyes adjust u ntil shadows and outlines, the edges of things, be come tangible. hard as metal, cold as ice. a body f rozen in a lake. this is the edge of things. a photo graph in gray. a sigh. a pen drawing circles until t he page rips. ink bleeding through everything. an abyss. abysmal. looking at a reflection, seeing thro ugh it instead. hollow still has a shell at least. this is the edge of things, where it stops. it stops…….