carson-reach

The reach of desire is defined inaction: beautiful (in its object), foiled (in its attempt), endless (in time).

“I had a vision / of all the people in the world / who are searching for God

massed in a room / on one side / of a partition

that looks / from the other side / (God’s side)

transparent / but we are blind. / Our gestures are blind.”

Anne Carson | “My Religion”