what happens when you die

what happens

when you die

what happens when you die

quinn milton

Prologue

Imagine, for a moment, that you’re about to die.

What a way to begin.

Maybe you were one of

616,067 who died of Heart Disease

56,875 of Cancer

135,952 of Strokes

127,924 of Chronic Lower Respira

123,706 Accidents

(24,671 Tragic 74,632 Maybe you expected it 71,382 made preparations for your leaving 52,717 (but not, so much, for where you were going) 46,448 and tried to ready yourself for the inevitable 34,828 but still unacceptable.

34,498 29,165 Maybe it came like a bright flash car crash out of nowhere, and suddenly you can only see an inch into your future an inch that defies all depth you could have been anywhere else but you were here.

Death is a moment.

Death is selfless.

21 grams of soul weighed against a feather on a faulty scale, bending between the biological and mythological.

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count worms, peg out, bite the dust, kick the calendar, breathe your last, give up the ghost, meet your maker push up daisies, or otherwise raise the pale horse we will try to balance the scale and make sense of the six feet under.

Death sits beside you on a carousel ride one of those two-person carriages that’s bolted to the floor immovable amidst a whirlwind of motion and memory, of rearing horses and carnival lights, of painted jewels, bright reverberations, of ambulance sirents, lions, chimeras, fragments of your childhood scattered on the concrete

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like old newspapers whose words blur in the rain misrememberd, reclaimed by the press of ink on skin these damp butterflies

3,045 628 769

your eulogy written on their wings.

43,945

22,631

Anemias Malnutrition Meningitis bulls horses rattlesnakes spiders dogs bees Surgical complications Assault by firearms Accidental poisoning Smoke, fire, and flames Drownings Accidental discharge of firearms Peptic ulcers Kidney infections Pregnancy and childbirth Motor vehicle accidents Falls

The nausea dizziness pain has no place among these amaranthine beasts.

The last thing you feel is your breath who you now realize as your truest companion who knew every moment that you laughed, cried, stuttered; every hiccup and sigh; every moment that captured it in your chest like a bird in strong hans; every sob and shout; who knew all these things and judged you not; who recorded every word on the back of the winds; and like tally-marks on post-signs counted each moment; who was waiting for you when the wave took you under and you thought your lungs would burst – that breath now rapid-fires, shallow and desparate, staccato breaths beat out a morse code: What happens when you die?

To the Underworld

Blue and bruised and basking in the desert sun the highway bakes, black and blistering, in the desert sun trinkets and talismans on the dashboard coins, crosses, limestone a necklace of bone beads poscard, Polaroid memories Drive north, under the crust of the Earth drive north to Mitclan graffiti on the gas station sign reads “ChAron� as you give toll, turn onto the Highway Styx where women in vigil on the asphalt edge stand like black birches their hair at their feet The radio sings of liberation through music and how each moment transcends from past to future a tremolo, trill, mordent those intersitials and your copy of Bardo Thodol glows in the passenger seat dirt between its pages its heiroglyphs on state maps its highways like veins its ink of the earth it’s topographies in a southern tattoo parlor inscribing incantations, invocations, incandescent, this atlas on your crumpled knees was written on you long ago you find you know the way to go

Through the Lethe Interstate the past bends below the horizon Asphodel fields filled with wanderlust crossroads where restless souls loiter down into the canyon through shinay, milam, samtem, chikkai the tunnel with the bright light arching gates aching red offer glimpses of elysian fields a distant paradise caught in the sunlight on the windshield Road-tripping through the afterlife over the weave of trails tresspassed

by Inanna, Heracles, Orpheus like the countour of a raindrop on a mountain wall or the maze carved by a worm on the fallen branch lost spirits catch in the divots but you have a compass over your heart your egg yolk buriend under the house spells hung around your neck viaticum and gasoline Pass the scorpion-hearted man drive through the tunnel of day-long darkness your only company the sound of the silent radio that sings: when you dream yourself alive you dream yourself dead the difference just a matter of standing between one arch and the other

Decompose

First comes the chill A winter like no other A cold blanket, a white sheet, settles on your contours rivers freeze and earth dries a frozen waste grows in the marrow of your bones autumn warmth quickly descending to room temperature Pallor mortis hues diminish the shedding of leaves the discarded pages of your memories Then that haunting paralysis a petrified tree in a morbid forest branches all pale and capillaries dry your blood drains out of your body and falls through the floor as colors bloom under your skin budding flowers for the bees and the hummingbirds A philosopher’s stone rests, hidden in your anatomy Where the momentary and eternal colide Where the heartbeat rhythm is preserved after the serene muscle sleeps the music goes, goes, goes...

The skeleton dances in defiance of our mortality a symbol at the heart of our fear and physicality

Persephone

The season is winter and the bride falls through the earth dirt fills every inch, finds its way into nostrils and under fingernails.

The soft earth bends, as in a memory you push down with your fingers to dig a cradle for a seed your mother kneeling beside you in the sunlight glare.

Season passed and from your kitchen window you watched the tree bend upwards to the sun that aestival spirit those incarnadine fruits.

And you said to your lover “When I die, burry me naked in the earth and plant a tree above my heart so as I decompose and bid my flesh farewell my bones will grow into the roots and you can eat my fruits in the summer on the carousel ride at the carnival like we did when we were younger.�

Come, let Persephone into your buried landscapes you were not meant for a wooden box for this marriage with Death the forest dries and sheds its color brumal bones pushing up the earth but spring is coming warm and rotting

So let the skin break like the pomegranate shell expose the pale bee hive and those crimson intricacies.

You are a feast.

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Barganining

Please don’t die.

Please.

Please.

Please.

Don’t die.

Just

Just

(Please) (Please) (Please) (Please) (Please) (Please) (Please) (Please)

Don’t Don’t Don’t

And I thought

Dear God,

I would do anything

She meditates on bed sheet folds Blanket pools, still water on still skin Cool and quiet save The ticking of clocks.

She covers contours Can’t differentiate Her body vast and opaque Beneath the stucco sky.

In stillness, sensation goes blind She breathes pillowcases, tucked corners Can stretch herself ifinitely But can’t fill the queen-sized bed.

There’s a light in the hall.

A shadow plays in her hair.

The fan spins on an uneven axis.

In the stillness of her ill-attended bedroom Her eyes trick into slowness She breathes backwards, flickers.

I would... stop smoking go to church every

Sunday call my mother

back sell my clothes sell my house give it all to charity be faithful appreciate him tell him I love him every day never fight stop honking compost be more grateful kind caring generous do anything you asked of me anything at all quit my job give blood donate my kidney give my right hand and my left my sight my mouth never walk again just leave me my ears so I can hear him call my name one last time.

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Paralytic, fears movement Will break the spell Give motion, realign uneasy thoughts.

There are a hundred things she has to do when she sits up, but her heart is with none of them.

She s c a t t e r s , divides Reads hieroglyphs on the ceiling shadow play Strange faces Twisting candlewicks Tree branches and wood knots Cellulose and pomegranate seeds LED peaks And the word “cradle”.

Memories turn anxious in hospital waiting rooms She rewinds and replays A surgery – no, dissection – of the moment when She gave light The season changed The floor cracked and opened the earth “Please, sit down,” Azrael said And the world came up through her knees.

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Give me a sign a n y t h i n g maybe if...

Which seasons come now?

What anger Depression, reflection Loneliness?

What climb out of the cold earth Up sheer mountain paths To what peak of acceptance Over a valley of hope?

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The television is left on in the other room But the cable is dead The sound comes through the open door Bareley audible, strange decibles A high pitched whine A ringing in her ears There is no freedom in that noise.

the telephone rings it rains tonight the baby cries twice I can count to ten before the water turns hot there are twelve seeds in the apple core the parking spot is free the pan burns the wind blows the birds sing the book bends the laundry spins the bath bubbles spell out a secret sign your grand design the reason why the next time I look the clock is on the hour the key is stuck the mail comes the flower wilts in such a pose that recalls the curve of your neck the tire streaks the telephone wires the skyline the dawning sun

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Her thoughts are not her own Ritualized, ashen marks on stone Grief is a mimcry of itself.

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And she thinks, “I know, I know.”

The one thing she can think honestly The apex of a sigh

that never falls.

The Grieving Parade Sleeping in the field

a drop of salt on your chest

stones lining the curves of the corpse you left behind Distantly music chimes

and they come from the horizon

this funeral pageant

wearing black, veiled faces

flags snapping up the wind A dark congregation carrying the weight

of your life on their shoulders

on a palanquin of coins and cups,

swords and sticks A ritual of impermanence A rite freeing your family from the embrace of grief They run out of the house to weep at Death’s doorstep

they flank both sides

their knees bent like unborn children They come from the earth

to break the ground with spades

to let the hourglass sand slip between fingers

palms cupped like a prayer

to sink the vessel in six feet of soil

among possessions that seize memory

to inter, exhume,

polish the skull and push tobacco between its teeth

to bury coins in the rice fields

to crush the flesh into a wooden box

nailing four extremities

high on the totem pole

to raise a roof above the grave, then destroy

to strike their heads to the ground

to dance atop swollen knolls beneath headstones

and the wings of marble angels

They come from the water

to push the body out to sea

to tuck flowers behind ears

to pour coconut milk

and fill the shell with ash

to sew into a burlap sack

replacing organs with the weight of six leagues

to sink to a wailing depth

where tears coalesce with blood

and mouths flood with wine

where reflections slip behind covered mirrors

where bodies arch bridges at doorways

coffins floating above

to dry beneath the sun, under bandages and blue stones

to wade in the muddy river that flows

from one world to another

They come from the fire

atop burning pyres

crawling blind through fallen ash

to bathe the remains on the dining room table

alight lanterns on the edge of a road

where altars collect at the site of collisions

to mold urns from red clay

to burn flowers and firecrackers

to spread your dust on the breath of the world

to dance on coals like shamans

to lay in the flames by their lovers

and smoke through the marrow

They come from the air Like a blade, the wind cuts through sound

carries smoke and ash to the ends of the world They come with vulture beaks and spread wing

to devour the cadaver, scavenger bellies bursting

flying high on new thermals

among fireworks and rifle shots

to draw runes around the corpse

to tie a thread from the monk’s hand

and sew the jaw shut

to offer blood, scar tissue, severed fingers,

and scars of mourning across their stomachs

to climb to the Tower of Silence

to strangle women

and speak no more

The mournful procession prances through the cemetary,

the columbaria, the skeleton cave,

the ash fields, the grave pits, the window They pass your house where white flags fly

like the wings of each year They shriek

and sing

and fall to silence

in the wake of the shell you left behind

the body that held but could not contain – like salt in the earth that does not decay –

the weight of your spirit now resting upon

the mortal memory of the grieving parade.

Ghosts

There was a ghost in the window One of the few places a ghost can be Not a reflection or a referent But somewhere in between

What remains when the body has passed?

The moaning of floorboards Distortions in photographs?

Spirits haunting the corners of eyes On the backs of black cats And at crossroad signs

If you look closely you can see Memories of the earth walk around Slipping on shadows Never touching the ground

The eidolons of the ages only remain To whisper lullabies To frighten horses And flick television sets That is, to tease the mortal realm Raising hair on necks Reminding us of the second silhouette The hidden edge behind what we see

Maybe the ghost in a glance at the mirror Looks not for an image on the other side But through the membrane of the viewer For an echo of the shadow he left behind

Death Gods

I am the first I am the fallen

I am Mictlantecuhtli, Lord of the Underworld the North the eleventh hour I am bloodied bones and owl feathers I eat the stars during the dy and live in a house with no windows

I am Mot Moth mute check mate my appetite is the lion wilderness my longing is the sea you may cut me s p l i t me burn me in the fire leave the rest for birds to devour but I will always return through seven aching years

I am the old woman the singer the plague hag a broom in my hand a coffin for my bed whose seven years sleeping robbed me of my beauty

I am Hel like all women I am my domain the dead enter me t h e l i vi n g l e a v e m e my b o n e s are the scaffolding the column the staircase the windowpane the castle under the roots half flesh half black and this s c h i s m the highway down my spine drives you to ressurection

I am Hine-nui-te-po great woman of the night sunset red tail lights on the interstate Maui crawls into my vagina and out of my mouth unbirths himself in search for immortality foolish first man crushed between my thighs between obsidian teeth

Yo soy Santa Muerte Señora de las Sombras blanca y negra la flaca niña santa mira mis manos y mi cara mi tunica de piel y carne en la que esconderme del mundo una esphera una tumba una guadaña que corta un hilo de plata un búho una balanza un reloj de arena una lámpara de aceite

I am M贸rr铆gan the Phantom Queen chimera creature of crows cows and rearing nightmares black and white and long-robed I go by many names Marzanna Mara Moranna we are all the same I am the Winter burn me drown me before the spring I am Mara lopu mate mother of the milk we are all the same of earth of children cattle souls I am the Mother of all Mothers I guard your death

We are the GuĂŠdĂŠ clan Doubye Linto Loraj Nibo we drum the drum and dance the banda we drink rum and eat goat peppers Papa waits at the crossroads with a cigar in his mouth and an apple in his hand Brave is the graveyard guardian psychopomp Nibo guides the drowned and sister-brother Masaka the gravedigger he-she holds a bag of poison leaves and an umbilical cord we rule Death with Baron Saturday Baron Cross Baron Cemetary and the white lady Maman Brigitte

I am Hades the u n s e e n Plouton Dis Pater Orcus Aita the Helm of Darkness on my brow the hound Cerberus at my gate I inherited the under earth the unwanted kingdom the place where the dead disappear I sit in the s h a d o w of everything unable to cast my own the only flower in this dark earth my Persephone my pomegranate my winter wife my l o n g i n g summer

I am Zahhak Azi Dahaka with 10,000 horses in my carousel kiss me on the shoulders twice and twice serpents rise with three heads and ten sins immovable and ravenous

I am Abaddon Angel of the Abyss King of the locus plague like horses with faces riding atop and wings and lions’ teeth and scorpion tails King of the chimera parade

I am Koschei the deathless my heart is the black needle whose point I have sharpened to exactness. And now I s e w my soul into the yoke of an egg into the feathers of a duck, into the leap of the wild hare. And all these things that I am, I hide in a wooden box and lock so surely, so you cannot find me and kill me so I cannot find myself.

I am Koschei the coward and something in me is f r a y i n g at the e n d s s o m e thing in me is c o m i ng u n d o ne . If o n l y I c o u ld r e a c h t h a t n e e d l e of m i n e .

I am Ankou oberour ar maro the cruel prince and his black stag the guardian of the graveyard the dead at the dawn of a new year

I am Anubis the jackal upon the mountain the place of embalming the guardian of the scales the color of flesh and the Nile valley

I am Osiris Asar Usirer the usurper the Lord of Silence I weigh the sound of your 42 confessions against the quivering feather

I am Yama Guardian of the Directions twin to Yami we first men of the earth we first to die I am Thanatos son of Night and Darkness twin of Sleep I am the Death Drive the gravity that pulls you to the grave

I am the Angel of Death Malak al-Maut Azrael with four faces and four thousand wings and all the eyes and tongues of wordly men in a book I enscribe their names the name of their coming and their going I am the archangel the avenger the embodiment I stand above you my sword drawn when your hour chimes with bent backs and gaping mouths I slip down the blade a drop of gall and from that fissure your soul escapes I draw it from the mouth the throat your voice travels the length of the world and back but is heard by none men fear the chord of death the sound of silence the strangling suffocation the struggle of that last breath

I am Ereshkigal the great lady under the earth Sister Winter at my first gate I see Inanna Sister Summer of leather jackets the open road the sky the reflection that brings light into shadow I open my arms to her and devour she comes to my first gate dressed like a queen with a turban wig beads on her breast the pala dres mascara a golden ring the lapis lazuli measuring rod she comes for the funeral of my not-husband Gugalana slain by Gilgamesh and Enkidu she comes and I devour I undress I d i s m e m b e r under the arch of seven gaping gates I strip her of her mes her mythemes her Enki gifts until she stands naked before me no shame or modesty nothing to hide her from the world this strong firey wildling girl like a mirror without a glassy plane two sisters intertwine their anatomy and mythology the earth and the unbirth the shadow and the silhouette the seasons’ cycle dependent on that gravitational pull all blurs in the spinning lights

I am Ereshkigal and Inanna too I sit on the throne with my seven judges with their leering open mouths the look of death falls upon my mirrored self a transference a dance and suddenly Ereshkigal is all summer fruit fertility Inanna is a slab hanging from the hook waiting for the drops of life to come seeping to the roots when those dust figures come gala-tura kur-jara she is in labor womb swollen empty bones in her belly which sister am I now the pain of birth or euthanasia the budding flower or broken branch the shadow or the casting form the relief or the mold? out of the dark tunnels Inanna out through my ascending gates out from the hollow womb there a bright light your first breath the bud of spring out of winter bones the graden naked consciousless but someone must take your place dear sister someone has to die give me your husband give me him in car crashes in cancer in failing heartbeats give him to me a thousand fatalities and I will set you free

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The Carousel Ride In the brittle bones

The cracks on the gravestone

The sugar skulls The coffin

The carousel In the spine of a bible The pomegranate shell

The grains beneath the scythe

The lip gloss, cigarettes, pennies at the altar shrine In the wilderness where Gilgamesh fled the fear of death In the basin and the plague pit

A new emptiness emerged The space between stitches in an embroidered veil

The embodied form of the now unborn

The relief of a womb on a stucco wall On the gates of heaven

And the pediment of hell

In the river tread on the palms of the dead See the tree of life bloom in the twilight

How the flowers unfold in cherubim wings And swollen fruit, ripe for an instant Now bruised and bloated

Withers and falls

Bursts on the soil And wets the ground How the seeds sunk below

Still call the flowers to grow Embedded in life-lines

The rippling wood-knots of your skin

Tell of a circle

The center of which is an almost still void We can always sense as we fly about

The vibrating edge Amidst echoes of our past rotations

This is the place where you’ll find Death Simply put: the trough in the ground The hollow your fingers pressed to hold a seed

A cradle without a baby A vacant space

And yet

And yet No other abyss yearns for its own demise

In the sound of an infant’s cries Or a planted seed

With Hades’ loneliness spring blooms again Death sits beside you on a carousel ride Says, “You may ask me one question But it doesn’t really matter Everyone ends up asking the same thing And answers their own question besides.

They ask,

‘How is that this carousel ride

Is as much stillness as it is speed?

How are the horses at a galloping pace

Yet suspended in frozen grace?

At the hand of a sculptor They are caught as a memory in a photograph

And why is it that they move up and down

Although the ride spins around?

How is it that I’ve lived with such velocity

And now shall move no more?

Are we all stuck as the painted horse On a cycle that takes us nowhere?

Just round and round to the same old tune No transcendence

No room to move?

What happens when you die?’

and Death will say

“Yes.”

Epilogue What happens when you die?

The metronomic breath bursts in a code of meaning a stuttering, binary beat, mimicking the brush of brail down your spine, the telegrams in your arteries, the ancient message engraved on your anatomy. rising and falling the heart beat the LED peak the painted herd In your last breath, that final glimpse the string of a second stretched taught and expanse of time open like the horizon edge you blink in and out strobe-light moments of penetrating radiance and infinite darkness where time, memory, and thought vanish where the face of the abyss breaks through your last moment the new metronome swing replacing your suspended heartbeat.

Against that empty descent blindness without seeing silence without hearing selfless witnessing your life unwinds before you not flashing, but dancing in these blinking moments.

Memories now like the planes of pop-out books seem at once flat and deep their reccessions and intimacies play an optical trick familiar and forgotten distant and infinite you can see it all those crossroads where possibilities paralyzed you filled you with fear and longing now caught in the rearview mirror each decision perfectly aligned in a pattern a trajectory that could only have brought you here all united, all understood nothing fragmented, forgotten, superfluous the beautiful unveiling of your life of each moment that made you.

You see it all.

the turning of a page

the

grass of a field parting behind you

s t i t c h e s in the creases a highway folding into the horizon

landscapes flickering through the window

drawing runes on the fogged glass messages unearthed by the glare of the sun crop fields passing like the blades of a fan running on the asphalt and the sand bank a bird caught in the bent barbed wire fence scars accumulating counting your falls sleeping while dreams dance overhead, your mother bent over a pile of weeds, the day you planted that tree and how the branches of that memory are everywhere, in ocean waves, in piles of rotten apples, in rising veins, in cracking bones and plaster casts, ripples in your irises, the routines you inheritted and then

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