Carried: S.I.D.S. (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) (I)

This is a reading offered about an ending, not a cause identified for one — a way of holding an arrival that was complete in itself rather than cut off partway. It makes no claim about what any parent did or failed to do, and no explanation given here is owed to anyone in grief or of any use to them. Where the pattern speaks, it speaks about brevity that was not failure. What the shape asks for is that the ending not be converted into someone's fault.

I came for something short, and the short thing was the whole of it.

Trophonius, whose work was finished at a stroke and who was found at rest the following morning, the story insisting the brevity was not a punishment. The form implies a task: to let a completed thing be complete at whatever length it was.