Departure 18.

__The final kno(t)... is yet to be tied.

A String of life

The first knot

Then another, and another

Knot_ after knot_ after knot.

In time the knots

Become too densely joined

Knotafterknotafterknot.

Too, soon the knots

Are tied with less compression,

Knot,  after   k n o t,   after   k n o.