The Shape Practice Leaves
On the terrace of envy the eyelids are pierced with wire, as a falconer sews a hawk. The penitents lean on one another because they cannot look. Sapia of Siena was gladder of her city's rout than of any good that came to her. Heaven withholds the light envy used as a weapon. The practice of measuring life by a neighbour's fall becomes a face that cannot hunt that measurement anymore.
Key Insight
Comparative joy is a craft. It trains the eye until the eye is the whole problem. If you are gladder of someone else's loss than of your own work, you are already practicing a sewn lid. The wire is only the craft without a holiday.
