Marrow-heat in the cave bear's sleep was already the cold den. Far past these counted winters, someone else watches the same coals go dark.
“Biological awareness of light's half-division once reordered their material arrangements, yet that division now registers only as one more variance erased within the uniform relic spectrum.”
“The initial separation enabling observation already entails the equilibrated manifold in which observer and observed lose all mutual distinction.”
“Partition of light and dark that first drew horn across fresh ground already carried the uniform night destined to reclaim every distinction born from that division.”
“Across unshared centuries another silence meets mine: the first organized warmth was already an expenditure, a commencement whose only content was the debt of ending.”