Crossword-Solution: LUMINESCENCE 12 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland, I notice the ring that’s landed on your finger, a massiveinsect of glitter, a chandelier shining at the endof a long tunnel. Thirteen years ago, you hid the hurtin your voice under a blanket and said there’s two kindsof women — those you write poems aboutand those you don’t. It’s true. I never brought youa bouquet of sonnets, or served you haiku in bed. My idea of courtship was tapping Jane’s Addictionlyrics in Morse code on your window…

Prison Moon Four a.m. work duty and I beginmy solitary trudge from outer compoundto main building. A shivering guard, chilled in his lonely outpost, strip searchesme until content that my inconsequential nudity. poses no threat and then whispersthe secret code that allows me admittance into the open quarter-mile walkway. I chuff my way into another dayas ice glints on the razor wireand the rifles note my numbed passage, silent but for my huffs and scuffleon the cracked, slipp…

You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember." Gwynneth paused. "It is the value, the quality that lives on.