What Burns by Dale Peck

Author:Dale Peck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2019-10-01T14:07:22+00:00

—1999

V.

There are moments of great lucidity and moments even I recognize as delusional, but most of the time I linger somewhere between. Is this death opening the door for me, I wonder sometimes, or life, holding on to me? Holding me back. I feel as if I’ve been made privy to a new aspect of human existence and I’m tortured by its beauty, and by the fact that it’s probably not real. The pressure to believe weighs so heavily at the end. To believe in this bed, this room, this city. To believe in the people walking outside my window and their migratory thoughts, sitting on my sill like a bird at a feeder, offering a glimpse of themselves but taking away one more kernel of my life. I am being pecked to death. I am being eaten. But in return I am becoming a man of visions. My body is too insubstantial to hold back the thoughts and feelings of my fleshier fellow citizens, and they flood into me. But will my death dissolve them, or finally allow them to become real?

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