I am having to do this here alone. No one to tell me when the ocean will begin. I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail, the drowned face always staring toward the sun. This is the place and I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair streams black, carrying a knife, a camera, a book of myths in which our names do not appear. -Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
God's cataract
While running, the shapes I see: mostly square—the graph paper ones, all over
the glass/ Below, more cubes—their light stains on the floor/ Kept ripples
And the far one—the smudged pulpit— god's cataracted eye
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