epigram

Each time we exert our will we are exhibiting hope inside emptiness.

Fanny Howe, The Wedding Dress: meditations on word and life (2003).

to be read on the occassion of my coronation as king of all dogs

The cereal is gone from the box.
The box is seriously empty.
How is this possible?
In this day in this age?
For they would go to the ends of the earth to learn
no reason for an emptiness
as vast as the emptiness
in this box where cereal once settled.