Threshold

Inferno Canto II; thresholds and loss of; H.D.; moon; love

“But tell me how you dared to make this journey
all the way down to this point of spacelessness,
away from your spacious home that calls you back.”

Inferno, Canto II, tr. Mark Musa

“a grain, a flaw, or a speck of light,

and in that point or shadow,
was the whole secret of the mystery;

literally, as his hand just did-not touch her hand”

H.D., The Flowering of th…