A Scroll

A scroll opens, life – to this point – unrolls: images, faces, questions. The still living, the long or recent dead. Memory battles with itself, for who else could verify these impressions? Dormant, they have risen; a resurrection, in the here and now.

Picture credit: The Joshua Roll, Vatican Library, an illuminated scroll, circa 10th century, Byzantine Empire, University of Arizona (source: Wikipedia).

Written April 2022.