GOD SAVE ME

He holds onto the white key The pathway to her heart To a youth foregone, Her rites of passage, Her disillusionment All forever locked away…

he relations made visible through the encounter become internal orientations. They begin to shape what consciousness recognises as coherent, what it desires, what it refuses and what it can no longer mistake for fulfilment. This passage may be understood as the formation of a vertical habitus of consciousness. The world disclosed by the meaningful other becomes inhabitable not because the observer reproduces that person’s existence, but because ....