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that's one image.
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Another is the admonition not to throw your pearls before swine,
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not to preach to those who can't hear, or won't be perceptive.
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So these moments of landscape description offer up that
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consistently Christian-inflected theory of the universe,
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that sense of transcendence as structure, as something that's
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moving inexorably, that will take all time to complete.
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It has a project; it has a teleology.
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So, that's present in all of these moments, but--equally present--
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I want to get back to this sense of blankness.
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There is a vagueness to this language that I think is quite
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calculated, and it relates, in Haze's case,