Monday, February 14, 2022

What did Jacob say to God?


I want to see the final vision
between reductio ad absurdum
and primal sleep-

I think that’s where you keep it.

Does it last just one moment
when the eye expands
beyond light
to see itself?

I want to see it now,
so I won’t need death

to be alive.

                           Jacob Wrestling God;  Jacob Epstein; Tate Gallery, London

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