November 9, 2025
Sal Randolph
Sal Randolph is an artist and writer who lives in New York and works between language and action. She is the author of The Uses of Art, a memoir, and her poems have been featured in BOMB, jubilat, La Vague, Luna Luna, Pamenar, Sound American, Vestiges, and elsewhere. Her weekly is Free Words (salrandolph.substack.com).
Each wave destroys the next, even the wavelets. What desire drives them? And are we like this, destroying ourselves? The waves, reflecting and fracturing a desireless sky.
This emptiness doesn’t imply an absence of things or of form, but rather a boundarylessness. All things interpenetrate and affect each other — the “thingness” of things is a feature of our conceptual minds rather than the world. Which is to say, I think all of us are living inside the kind of dissolving you refer to, because it’s a fundamental aspect of reality.