Hope: the following page. Do not close the book.
I have turned all the pages of the book without finding hope.
Perhaps hope is the book.
—Edmond Jabés


We live on
the edge of
A raft through
dejection

A joy almost
too great
To speak, so
it takes

Breath,
so we break
At the end
of the line

Whenever we see the sun
go on
The entire Death
Valley covered

In a carpet of yellow
and gold
pinafores. And you can't
imagine the hills

Any more than
deny
The contours
the failing

Light that gives
every angle
A vision
as it goes
from the journal CONDUIT
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