aren’t we always
already returning to
the reading in writing
to speak to lay claim to
describes its task
the responsibility of the other
womb/bomb
retrace
reinscribe
the other into the task
to read within the lines
always already
a summons to the act
of responsible thinking
a space clearing gesture
opens
specific interlocutionary
gestures
place the prefix
imagine the imperfection
reclaim criticism
undecidable
calculations of the law
always already
a responsibility to
the law
the movement of justice
the undecidable other
said and saying
the ordeal of undecidability
is a condition arising within
ethical invasion
inadequacy
that can’t be continued
the question of reading is
the question of rereading
attentive to a position
of endless iteration
between the past and the future
an ethos
speaking and thinking the non-present face
of the other
the text
ink sponge
outside our looking
a radical vulnerability
we can’t but narrate
we can’t but name
clear space
inhabit those, weep