Deathinitions

Alive, that means to stretch and have something to stretch. 
Alive, that means to give the potluck your secret recipe. 
Alive, that means a combination of steam and fantasy, like clouds. 
Alive, that means to etch out space out of nothing but space. 
Alive, that means a dream of the dead, a vast moving showing and hiding. 
Alive, that means hard lines met with soft lines, hardness softening. 
Alive, that means soft lines hammered with the hard, the soft stiffening. 
Alive, that means listening to the living in their living-dying throbbing. 
Alive, that means being one being now and quite another being later. 
Alive, that means something like fire, like air, like the earth or metal or water. 
Alive, that means movement, constant movement, movement in stillness. 
Alive, that means stillness is something uncanny even as the norm. 
Alive, that means seeming from one angle this, from another that. 
Alive, that means always catching things in the act, in actionless acts. 
Alive, that means we would be no better off if we knew the facts concerning life. 
Alive, that means we knew the facts of life once, or know them now. 
Alive, that means here we are now, facts or no facts, and here we come. 
Alive, that means that fate means what you are, as you are, that you are. 
Alive, that means that fate means fates intertwined with other fates. 
Alive, that means breath, a moan or a cough, then a whole bunch else besides. 
Alive, that means dying, but dying in a living way, living your dying. 
Alive, that means everything that seems empty is full, or full of waiting. 
Alive, that means a lot of noise finally always congealed into a song. 
Alive, that means a lot of playing at death and performing as living dead. 
Alive, that means a lot of steps go forward while lots and lots retreat. 
Alive, that means, as the old man said, to be able to bend living vines. 
Alive, that means at all times never to stray from life’s sinuous lines. 
Alive, that means to be halfway there and mixed up all the time. 
Alive, that means to be scattered and collected, collected and scattered again. 
Alive, that means to be bent and rent countless times, 
   knotting gratitude. 
Alive, that means that a rock is both a rock and an answer. 
Alive, that means to course from one great mood to a mood not so ample. 
Alive, that means sample absolutely everything, grow disgusted or disinterested. 
Alive, that means your own perfect minute nook, shared with ten thousand things. 
Alive, that means being a beast sharing berries and flesh with other beasts. 
Alive, that means opening, that means forgiving, that means wide, means sky. 
Alive, that means holding feasts for even our worst ghosts, the ghouls inside. 
Alive, that means that soulful or soulless we are alive, 
   magnifi-tentatively alive. 
Alive, that means to muster the stregth and fortitude of eternity for a failure. 
Alive, that means that the ones alive are always alive beyond measure.