- Vol. 05
- Chapter 12
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Image by Mark Basarab
Every single light bulb
You can take the bottom of this canyon
as a metaphor for where things are with me
right now ā flat on my back, looking
at a rapidly receding ambition, forever
out of my reach. But Iām thinking of a
story a neighbour once told me, of how
on his 80th birthday, a tea clipper ā once
fast and famous, and now gently sliding
out of memory ā sailed into the window
of the restaurant he was eating in, and he
could feel that every single light bulb
in the world was illuminated for a moment.