Annotated Draft of "The Year Ends"
Annotated Draft of "The Year Ends," circa 2004-2005
The original title, ¨It Ended,¨ implies closure; the revision, ¨The Year Ends,¨ repositions grief as persistent, folding into the passage of time without resolution. The line “He lived in her mind” adopts third person to evoke interiority: memory as a continual force.