This refers to history in a state of nakedness. As it is written:
“Now that the hand that writes is gone.”
The wound in the mind.
This refers to the plaque. As it is written:
“With an archival hand and a docudrama arm, we membered.”
I had been aloof.
This refers to the fact of war. As it is written:
“High definition is a psychic preserve, a knowable extinction.”
Fails—Falls.
This refers to a judgment. As it is written:
“By stepping out, you are joined.”
What happens within this shrinking?
This refers to waving faces. As it is written:
“Are you not a self, and is not self a vanishing intercession?”
The ghost is more than a ghost.
This refers to interested trauma. As it is written:
“When, searching through the wreckage.”
The man was an occupant.
This refers to private memory. As it is written:
“Two fingers distinguished him.”
The page’s gutter.
This refers to the devastation. As it is written:
“A tender living.”
The white sheet, if not culpable.
This refers to absence. As it is written:
“If we do not claim a kind of dark, what is our portion?”