I.
Living gone.
Small nudging.
seeking place.
Small cat bumped along.
Gone.
Straining.
Searching.
Seeking the edge,
the section, the way.
II.
Finally -
dam straining,
small climb.
Cat along,
bumped and searching upstream.
Finally living,
living dead,
living an edge over
and out.
III.
The out woman
edged out,
bumped as a dead cat -
small, searching,
nudging, seeking,
straining along:
gone.
IV.
Straining dead,
the small place upstream:
cat along, together,
gave way…
straining the section together.
Bumped as a dam.
Climb out.
A small place.
Nudging.
Searching.
V.
They
gave way
to structure:
seeking
nudging,
bumping,
searching.
straining.
Dead woman climb;
living cat bump
upstream.
Gone.
Out.
Together.
(Using the cut-up words and phrases technique, here is the novel’s final paragraph in five found variations.)
