An EOL Poetry Series

A series of poems based on the lump of human love left as everything ends.

I said, "I love you."

She didn’t flinch.
She didn’t soften.
She didn’t even smile.

She said, “I know.”

And maybe that was enough.

Maybe that’s what it means when two people have weathered something so big, so unspeakably final, that the words we once held sacred become as empty as the skies above us now.

I said, "I love you too."

We sat there, side by side, in …