Night-visions, mothing, and psychopomps.

I often hear Mary Oliver asking,

Do you need a prod?

Do you need a little darkness to get you going?

Yeah, Mary, thanks, how could you tell? Is it my fumbling around out here in the bright summer sunlight, reaching for shade? My perpetual squinting through each day? My fantasizing about caves?

I used to depend on internal darkness to get me going - the rel…