Flowers on the Grave

11 June 2025

To live in hauntingis to try and & fateby clinging to a version of the worldthat no longer breathes

The past is sediment.You cannot unsink it.Will you live in its shadowor plant flowers on the grave?

There's no antidote to doom¹.Doom is not the end,²it is the condition

Notes

By the editor.

Old English dōm meant judgment, law and decree, and the sense of fate came later. In What the Ghosts Actually Are she writes that Doom is “the law of all things, neither God nor devil,” and On Doom, and the Lineage You Are Founding builds a life around it. So “no antidote” does not mean no hope, since what you cannot cure is the ground you stand on. ↩
The link to freedom is built into the word. In What the Ghosts Actually Are she notes that Old English frēodōm is frēo, “free,” plus dōm, and says that Doom and Freedom are the same. The condition you cannot escape is the one that lets you choose. ↩