19 February 2013

immaculate possibility

"she's never liked twilight, you know,
when it comes, it only confirms
we've failed at everything
again
it only arrives to insist
what a waste,
it says, I at least end things, I
understand perfection, deep
at its source it isn't power,
nothing so small, so edible
there, it is immaculate possibility"

from Dionne Brand's brilliant Inventory

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