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