The Second Person

You would like what you write to be the abode of – what? Who is it you would like to meet here, on the page (or in Post Introduction)? Who would you like to feel pressing towards you, as though from the other side of the computer screen?

I write to catch – what? To entrap – who? Even as know that by writing I must let you escape. ‘You’ – is this your word? ‘You’: word without horizon. ‘You’: word that keeps place for you, whoever you are. Word that is a cup. Word from which to drink, to take into your body.

And when I call myself ‘you’? When I address myself thus, in the second person? Who are you, the second person? Who are you, whom I can approach only with this word without horizon?

‘You’: that’s what I’ll call myself. ‘You’ – name of the one whose body is the place where you are arriving. Who will I be tomorrow? Who is coming tomorrow? ‘You, you …’