Behind All This, Some Great Happiness Is

The Memory Of My Father Is Wrapped Up In White Paper, Like Sandwiches Taken For A Day Of Work. Just As A Magician Takes Towers And Rabbits Out Of His Hat, He Drew Love From His Small Body.

Tonight I Think Again Of Many Days That Are Sacrificed For One Night Of Love. Of The Waste And The Fruit Of The Waste, Of Plenty And Of Fire. And How Painlessly-time.

I Was A Very Religious Child - I Went To Synagogue At Least Once, Sometimes Twice, A Day. And I Remember My Religiousness As Good - I Think Religion Is Good For Children, Especially Educated Children, Because It Allows For Imagination, A Whole Imaginative World Apart From The Practical World.

The Soul Inside Me Is The Last Foreign Language I'm Learning.

The Phrase I Like To Use To Describe My Sense Of Time-a Play On Comparative Literature - Is Comparative Time.