Ohhh, this is stunning. Absolutely gorgeous use of language -- most fic that tries for poetic ends up with wasted words, weakening their point with excess, but this is so thoroughly good and precise the whole way through. I love these pictures, the themes and ideas and people, and the way you play with the visual word, the tapering away, the paring down, which is somehow so very Angel. And oh, you make me hurt for Buffy, at her two lowest lows. Brava.