Lawrence
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Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Negative
Capability and Stuff
For Nat Lipstadt
Exactly inexactly that sheet of paper
A blank sheet of paper rich in its blankness
Because there is nothing there and so
The possibilities of being are without limits
Except for that 8.5 x 11” thing
Which the writer is free to repudiate
And see beyond it a spectrum of beauty and truth
Which is not there except in seeing it so
Letting go too can make imaginings new
(But still, my very dear friends, the rent is due!)
