Death
04/28/2026 14:58h
For E.P. Kazhe/Botella
The dread, however, was not of death’s agonies.
— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, tr. by Will Petersen
it is prohibited to whisper the names of the dead,
as it encourages them to linger at the doorstep,
and she has already lingered, far too long
