Unidentified Deity
Solo Exhibition
At Gallery 1019
Purchase, NY
October 2026
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If I feel the night
move to disclosures
or crescendos,
it's only because I'm famished
for meaning; the night
merely dissolves.
And your otherness is perfect
as my death.
Your otherness exhausts me,
like looking suddenly up from here
to impossible stars fading.
Everything is punished by your absence.
Is prayer, then, the proper attitude
for the mind that longs to be freely blown,
but which gets snagged on the barb
called world, that
tooth-ache, the actual? What prayer
would I build? And to whom?
(Li-Young Lee from The City in Which I Love You)
