20 January 2004 -
1:19 p.m.
Ghosts burn like velvety-black smoke in the dark, shaking soot around themselves as they inhale each other, as they expand like anger. Their cores smolder and creak like charcoaled, ashen driftwood, hidden by the failure of your eyes and terribly revealed by the unavoidable perfection of your ears. They grow into each other. They are all the same. Night buries itself far inside: deep, dispirited and completely unaware of you. It boulders through hardly-there-at-all specks, dispersing them like eddies of dust, sending them spinning away like steam. There is no more malice in this than there is in an old lady sweeping; and there is no more horror in this than there is in an ice-age. The darkness ages, and has aged for longer than ages have been. It aches and loses its way, meandering and expanding, spreading as far as there is space to spread and folds into itself. It has more words for sad than eskimos have words for snow. Now, light is different. Light is small and intense. It knows nothing of curves or being lost. It knows only ahead and behind, and it will bounce off you, or it will pass into you, asking nothing for its sacrifice and leaving nothing behind, except warmth.
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