Nothing that I do is finished
so I keep returning to it
lured by that notion that I long
to see the whole of it at last
completed and estranged from me
but no the unfinished is what
I return to as it leads me on
I am made whole by what has just
escaped me as it always does
I am made of imcompleteness
the words are not there in words
oh gossamer gossamer breath
moment daylight life untouchable
by no name with no beginning
what do we think we recognize
--W.S. Merwin
photo of Henri Matisse by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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