It is light.”240. All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.

me.”As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.

One thing they don’t tell you ’bout the blues when you got ’em, you keep on fallin’ ’cause there ain’t no bottom,’ sings Emmylou Harris, and she may be right. Perhaps it would help to...