Instructions for finding an empty space
Fight no one. Keep out of mind the absurdity of the brevity and the precarity of all of this—gestures broadly at everything—and then see somehow in the face of a stranger in a car turning past you at an intersection some fleeting facet of the face of your mother, your sister, your someone, and remember such a tenderness and a brilliance and see fully framed by countless traits and tendencies passed on passively the space unoccupied by them which you contain.
An absence outlined by presence.
The white clouds drifting from the thin smokestacks look tinted green against the electric pink and blue sky, the crisscrossing spines of the interstate bridge a lightless black, dimensionless and intricate against the interminable clouds.