"the world plus the world"

infinity, The Fool, the first name of God

Closed books are dead things. Lovely to look at in their un-neat rows above the candlelight. Many nights now, during the baby’s late and too late and too early feedings, I look at the books. My husband holds the baby in the chair and looks at me or the baby or falls asleep while her milk dribbles. Sometimes I look at them. Sometimes I say, “Kiernan, wak…