The Illusion of the Search
There is a silence that precedes the word, and in that silence, I have always been waiting for a displacement of the air. The minute I heard my first love story—that fragile, invented thing—I began the frantic search. I looked for you in the corners of rooms, in the yellowing light of five o’clock, in the faces of strangers who held their breath just as I did. I thought love was a destination, a geographic point where two separate solitudes might collide and finally cease to be lonely. How blind that was. My God, the blindness of looking outward when … Continue reading The Illusion of the Search