Something in the way that . . . something that was said. I don't know if I ever knew a way to not feel dead, but everything is swirling. Everything at once. I lost my mind a couple times just to rise up from the swamps. These reeds do leave their marks. This mud has ****** the color. I'll sleep beneath the cypresses to feel closer to mother. She speaks to me in dreams of things that only once were hinted. How shall I ever get along after being so afflicted?