First Things RSS Feed - Travis DuPriest https://www.firstthings.com/author/travis-dupriest en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:59 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/travis-dupriest 60 Tiresias https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/10/tiresias https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/10/tiresias Fri, 01 Oct 1993 00:00:00 -0400 I have walked now for days on end
with my eyes closed, thoughts
centered at the point of my
nose as I imagine a cat’s
to be, drawn wink by sleepy
wink forward from the brain
until the inner resources
are pruned purple into a pure
moment of insignificance. I
walk this way because I see
better with my eyes shut, or
almost shut like the outline
of mascara on a Chinese doll.

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