I contemplate these crossings illuminated by clouds between a shape of thought and its veils we didn't invent a screen-reality it was already there, in the scriptorium of mind I contemplate this geography known only by fingertips unworded broken lines in tense bodies I wonder about the lineage of tears, of hopes how we grow old in this ardour, in the burning of bridges I nod, I frown at the glaze of time I move to the center of seeing like a novice I gaze at the poliphony of being at our Janus faced trade with flames I say to myself it's good to decenter the "I" in this poem however,Β Β there is no purity of words height after height and depth after depth we betray a simple evidence: we belong to the same air will we regret our rush towards the malaise of thought, will we be rowing over the theft of light? an invisible will is building up, an antifragile declamation, the soul's defamation