Teeth sinking into heart

I was getting used to it, to the sight of lifeless things. I’d been learning, since the slowing, about the qualities of the dead, the way a bird’s body deflates after a few days, the way it drains, growing flatter and flatter until only the feathers and the feet remain.

- Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles (via theoryoflostthings)

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