Recent Darknesses: Candle, Mirror, Reflection

Recent Darknesses: Candle, Mirror, Reflection
“I too go from the night.”
-Walt Whitman
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-Edith Wharton
“Through me runs the power of recent dark experience.”
-George Saunders (Home, Tenth of December)
Tell how darkness spreads?