end matter

In an open letter to Congregation Beth Israel, whose synagogue was a target of far-right demonstrators yelling antisemitic slogans outside in 2017, Rabbi Tom Gutherz warned that the trial would not end matters.

In the story to follow, the narrator’s mortally ill friend, anticipating the horrors of cancer treatment, confesses she means to end matters early, with pills.

The only time New Orleans failed to score was when it took a knee at the Bengals 31-yard line to end matters.

Or would they applaud Shurmur for going for two — and the victory — to end matters right there?

It’s a work of verse, with some prose end matter to help elucidate the poems, and it will reward a reader sophisticated enough to grapple with language and metaphor.