Question is water is snow,
Answer is thirst are we.

Anne Carson writes, “a question can travel into an answer as water into thirst.” Question like water, answer like thirst. 

Water travels into thirst, yes, and quenches it, or calms it. So a question, Carson says, satisfies an answer. 

Or, if a question pilgrimages to an answer, then water transfigures into thirst.

In the first unraveling above, we understand “water into thirst” but then not “question into answer.” In the second unraveling above, we understand “answer from question,” but not “thirst from water.”

As if the two states of Carson’s analogy can not coexist, like particle and wave, like dream and wake. 

Meaning sneaks in wearing this cranked-up rhetoric. The hyped-up mystical syntactical meanings mean. What is catches like a burr, holds two snatches of cloth close, making a space for itself in the raiment in which there is no space. Until we look here.