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TIME (2) by ROBERT CREELEY

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: MOMENT TO / MOMENT
Last Line: gets done, alone
Subject(s): TIME;
Moment to
moment the
body seems
to me
to there: a
catch of
air, pattern
of space - Let's
walk today
all the way
to the beach,
let's think
of when we'll be
in two years'
time, of where
we were. Let
the days go. Each moment if
of such paradoxical
definition - a
waterfall that would
flow backward
if it could. It
can? My time,
One thinks,
is drawing to some close. This
feeling comes
and goes. No
measure ever serves
enough, enough -
so "finish it"
gets done, alone.



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