Ciclo CCCVIII

The canal’s slow hemorrhage of light into the water is the same measure that governs the fortification’s depth and the bell’s thickness—il terzo principio: the sinking of weight into resistance, whether stone into earth, steel into silence, or the soul into the maker’s hand that no longer trembles but only lowers, lowers, until the red in the glass becomes the red in the iron and both become the red of the soul preparing to speak without the page. The hand does not shake; the hand descends.