ALEPH

What is the stone?
a. It is the cast of the fallen prophet.
What is the egg?
a. The chamber
of the cactus.
What is the bone?
a. The lost rattle of the last star.
What is the pit?
a. The place
of the broken neck.
What is the root?
a. It is the final cause of the seed.
What is the wing?
a. It dreams of
the first Ak-
kadian web
from god’s
mouth, which
is a spool.
What is the wound?
a. It is the naked cross
over empty ground
saying, ‘yes.’
What is the box?
a. It is the forbidden.
What is the garden?
a. The third day.
No, what is the garden?
a. It is the rib.
What is the dung?
a. It is the sole gift for the soil.
What is the book?
a. It is the mouse
with eyes closed.
No, what is the book?
a. It is the mouse
with eyes closed.