“If I saw it
I felt it
If I felt it
I learned from it.”
—Peter Gizzi, “EVERYDAY I WANT TO FLY MY KITE,” from Now It’s Dark
“Generalizing is part of what causes depression. The more we generalize, the more separate we become. The more we get specific with each other, and actually hang out, and actually try to solve the problems, the better life is.”
—Taylor Mac
In The Changing Light at Sandover
The hierarchies of heaven
Are revealed to James Merrill
And his partner David Jackson
By their familiar, a handsome
Young Jew from 4th Century
Greece named Ephraim, whom
They contact via a Ouija
Board, their fingers