2016-07-30



More or Less On Time
--Paulo Leminski (trans. Chris Daniels) 
.......Condemned to be precise,
if I could just be a vague
.......will-o-the-wisp over a lake,
equally deceptive
.......to flier, swimmer, liar,
mosquito, frog, snake. 
.......Condemned to be precise
for a time so refined,
.......a time so timeless
it might as well be space,
.......precise, how surprising,
lozenge, meter, barline,
what I don’t want, wanting.




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