Heaven's Light
Originally posted to Twitter on September 16, 2022. They say that light hangs timeless in an eternal now. They say that each glimmer of starlight is a glimpse of grace; that heaven lurks among those twinkling pinpricks and only light will ever be truly saved, in that eternity lingering between emission and absorption. They lie. It’s obvious if you have the nose to smell it. Few do, and fewer bother. Sunlight is clean and fresh, as warm and welcoming as a corpse whose blood has not yet remembered to cool. Moonlight is dripping blood and petrichor, familiar as any reflection’s smile. ...