FRAGMENT IV / A CAPACITY RECOGNIZED
Attraction
I am drawn to a capacity in you that I recognize I lack within myself.
Before that sentence, there may only be relief: a rhythm that steadies, nourishment that arrives, pressure that falls, room in which movement becomes possible.
In these stories, a being may desire what another can do before recognizing the other as separate.
Desire opens a relationship. It does not establish its terms.
The form recognized a possibility before it recognized a companion.