8.8.23

From "234" in Geoffrey Hill’s THE BOOK OF BARUCH BY THE GNOSTIC JUSTIN

Refulgent ruined sunflower with that mock black hole to your bent tower:

Eden and Elohim, ‘a desire united them in one feeling of love’.

The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin: I despair of ever getting the theology of this thing checked-in and under repair.

Slowness to learn is in large part redemptive, says the voice of the tempter.

Is it the brilliance of the pre-emptive that one would be wise to fear?