The Deadlands, Issue 02, June 2021 by The Deadlands

Author:The Deadlands [Deadlands, The]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sean Markey
Published: 2021-06-10T04:00:00+00:00

The part of the Demeter story that I find the most poignant is the tension between permanence and change. She gets her daughter back, but has to immediately accept that she will lose her again. Again and again and again. When Persephone left Hades, she plucked those three seeds like garnet teeth from the mouth of the pomegranate, setting into motion an inescapable cycle of loss and reunion. Of change.

“All changed, changed utterly,” Yeats says in his elegiac poem “Easter 1916.” He calls this change “A terrible beauty.” The terror, I can see. The last three years of my life have included an axis-shifting divorce, a public coming-out, another shattering breakup, and a global pandemic. These changes have wrung and frightened and depleted and exhausted me; they’ve scratched at my spirit, torn my self-image. I’m sorry, Yeats, but I struggle to see the beauty in change.

Except, maybe, when I’m looking at a skull.

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