This is a fact

This is me trying

This is my leaving

This is a louse

This is a seed

This is a fish

This is a table

This is a farmer

This is a leaf

This is a root

This is blood

This is bone

This is a crease

This is an egg

This is an eye

This is a horn

This is skin

This is a claw

This is a knee

This is a foot

This is hair

This is a breast

This is a neck

This is a belly

This is a hand

This is a liver

This is my good ear

This is water

This is a wave

This is stone

This is sand

This is smoke

This is a path

This is night

This is a mountain

This is a hill

This is cold

This is round

This is clean

This is goodbye

This is today

This is an estuary

This is an ossuary

This is a floodplain

This is a cove

This is a cave

This is a mesa

This is a mess

This is the sky

This is a good man

This is prom night

This is a backseat

This is a highway in Northern Ontario

This is the smell of beer on your breath

This is a bow-tie undone

This is a moose on the road

This is an antler

This is a leg

This is a windshield

This is blood from your nose

This is the shoulder of a highway

This is the end

This is nostalgia

This is an assassin

This is the assassination of JFK

This is a blurry photograph

This is the moon landing

This is my middle finger

This is punk rock

This is my mother’s record collection

This is her dancing in the living room with the blinds drawn

This is the Big Bang

This is evolution

This is everything that came after

This is a coup d’état

This is blood on your hands

This is making love in the afternoon

This is my mother chopping onions

This is a dust mote

This is an eye infection

This is an eyebrow

This is a hidden tattoo

This is your runny nose after coming in from the winter cold

This is moisture

This is the void

This is an experiment in kinetics

This is a hot tub in Vegas

This is your clavicle

This is a missed opportunity

This is the time I’ve wasted

This is attrition

This is the national debt

This is a cliff battered by the ocean

This is an industrial park

This is a needle

This is thread

This is my family

This is a broken condom

This is June

This is the valley

This is a vagina

This is a whisk

This is a scent-free space

This is the boreal forest

This is a subatomic particle

This is a calculated risk

This is a hipster dad pushing his son on the swing

This is the colour purple