FREEDOM

It came along this white line that might signify dawn’s emergence as well as dusk’s candlestick.

It passed beyond the unconscious strands; it passed beyond the eviscerated summits.

They were ending: the cowardly countenanced renunciation, the holiness of lying, the harsh drink of the executioner.

Its word was not a blind battering-ram but rather the canvas where my breath was inscribed.

With a pace unsure only behind absence, it came, a swan on the wound, along this white line.

[MAC]