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Saturday, August 12, 1995

Two Poems for Jim (12 August 1995)

(1)

One breath
Haltingly continuing for days
Moments alive, fragile, transparent
No room for illusion

Each tick of time measures the infinite
Worlds expand in the stillness and collapse

Repetition numbs
Polishes features with constant drumming
Reflects the subtle flicker
Life dances across the surface

My own breath remains
The silence roars with the missing echo

Change irreversible
At the pivot, no words

(2)

In the silence
A grand pirouette
Draws in the audience
Sucks diversion from their minds
And holds them
Suspended beyond time.

-- Larry Wolf (1995)
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