End of the Journey

A narrative that remains open

It is not a chronology.
It is a sustained mutation.
The form has changed its material, its structure, its function.
It has not ceased to insist.
The fish does not conclude.
It moves on.
What began as representation ends as conscious construction.
The journey does not close. It projects forward.
The fish has crossed the entire twentieth century.
Now it returns to the present as a question.