Instructions for Assembling the Miracle
Go light a candle in your darkest room.
If you can’t find the candle, find the room.
If you can’t find the room, then the candle.
If you go, you know, one of them will come.
ars poetica
Dear First Draft of This Poem
I wrote you by hand but can barely read you now.
What beautiful cross-outs you offer
the world!
Reading Your Posthumous Collection Backward
The sweetness of another world arrives,
through the small openings, late, page 400
or so, but that’s where I’m starting,