“By lust alone we keep the mind alive” —Theodore Roethke I own books I haven’t read for many years: first sun moving over the spines of unread books. I count the syllables I’ve just written for no further reason than to tell the mind to move. Remember at this moment how the planet turns, the ocean lowering long swells into its ten thousand coves. I would count the ten thousand words I’ve never written, never nudged nor moved them toward their certain doubt. The ocean’s depth, the planet’s poles, the universe, the compass needle coming to its place. Michael Sciarretta…
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