So it opens its mouth, wide as a ribcage, and swallows them both.
The wings remember everything. They were born from the scream of a comet, baptized in the vacuum where no sound lives. They have scraped the zenith and felt the sun’s corona lick their pinions. Their shadow falls like a prophecy: vast, brief, and absolute. the serpent and the wings of night
Night watches from its throne of spent light. It sees the serpent’s diamond head breach the cloud layer. It sees the wings carve furrows into the loam. And for the first time, night feels incomplete—neither above nor below, but simply between. So it opens its mouth, wide as a