Numbering Sands, V

Each occasion more expansive, more distant, more sudden-seeming, and yet each more ethereal and filigree, each brief communication a heat-bundle of stolen ideas and leanings, of gazes turned and awakened, of footfalls hushed and hashed out and refined : impossible to name the constant participation in the slippage and retreat of time into its blue otherness, its oblique otherwisdom, impossible to explain the genius by which biology, in the mind, overcomes disappearance, and makes and constructs the world into a new, more angular, direct and significant imitation of itself : surreality, hyperreality, the extrareality of being in the place of roots, of first voices and top-line landscapes, the artifice immune to artifice, the mask that unmasks, the bigger dreaming force of the self, still watching itself be born and come into being...

this mystery belongs to you, as it does to me, as it is mine and in my breath and fundamental to our senses; this mystery is faces that linger, that show a will to eternal knowledge, to eternal and unbinding intertwining of wholeness and interests, the way you can see that I might prefer to explore the lie, or maybe invent a freedom apart, but that I cannot, I refuse, because I taste too much this intractable intimacy, this self-knowledge stored long ago by me in your eyes, this intemperate puzzle always missing a piece or bleeding color or whispering something unhelpful : the story that lives outside of us and so requires that we live within each other, the longing that comes from having permitted the other to see everything, more than we permit ourselves, the need of that, stoked and unabashed by the interference of less robust hours, and so continuing, surviving, urging a kind of quiet and enlivening restoration, the first principle of whole knowledge, whole giving, whole woven betterment...

we only begin to take the first steps when we realize our next moment is an entirely different world...