Names fix things
in our imaginations.
Class Arachnida
Order Holothyrida
Family Holothyridae
Gardiner’s giant mite
Extinct. Full stop.
All sentences end:
The one you are reading.
The one you are speaking.
The one you are fixing to start,
like a spark or a flash in the brain
throwing a line out
for the name of a story
to rest on, briefly.