You enter the night,
as a thread enters the needle,
through an opening
propitious or bloody,
through the most luminous breach.
Being both thread and needle,
you enter the night
as you enter yourself.
— Jabés, The Book of Questions (tr. R. Waldrop)
You enter the night,
as a thread enters the needle,
through an opening
propitious or bloody,
through the most luminous breach.
Being both thread and needle,
you enter the night
as you enter yourself.
— Jabés, The Book of Questions (tr. R. Waldrop)