Some, seeking for the holy, look to lengthy written media; find certitude in yards of books like saint's encyclopedias. But books are works of men, and so must always miss the heart of it. The truth abides where no men go, and brevity's the soul of wit, so if it's true this universe began when something godlike stirred and wrote on dark unbeing's face, it only took a single verse, a single line, a single word to shatter all of time and space.
Isla Espiritu Santo, Baja
March 9, 1999
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