WORK IN PROGRESS
“… if our telos and our heart’s desire were, per impossibile, ever to be realized, then it could only happen outwith anything we could recognize as the horizon of the real, and as the effect of something given to us, not something we could bring about. But by constructing and cleaving to that ’language’, it also testifies there is such an elsewhere …” Stephen Mulhall, The Great Riddle, 113.
Words like true and good
lack homes in the world of things.
Compare light and cloud
shining in the cove
water on a bright winter
day. Light and cloud shine
in the icy cove,
the blue of the sky at home
in the quiet space
shared by light and cloud.
For now the cove is home to
the true and the good.
The gap in the ice
is a space where truth and good
shine forth: God’s eye,
if you will. In time
the ice reclaims the space and
we wander away.
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