The blockbuster glows

"In both [love and grief] the imagination is entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center; there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure. And in grief, as in love, we're pourus, permeable. There is something contagious about this openess. Other people sense it and respond to us differentrly, since our ungaurdedness seems to invite them. In grief and in love- so allied- the places and things associated with the beloved take on a shine, a numerosity which radiates out all the energy, the depth of emotion, and meaning with which they have been invest."
-Mark Doty, of whom I could quote all day. And I did.

And the blockbuster on Grand glows.