Death asked me to join him for dinner so I slipped into my favorite black dress that I had been saving for a special occasion and let him walk me to our candlelit tryst.

He ordered a ribeye, extra rare I ordered two desserts and red wine and then I sipped and wondered why he looked so familiar and smelled like earth and memory. He felt like a place both faraway and deep within my body A place that whispers to me on the crisp autumn breeze...

Photo from Bergman's Seventh Seal