I shake my memory.
Maybe something in its branches
that has been asleep for years
will start up with a flutter. No.
Clearly I'm asking too much.
Nothing less than one whole second.


"May 16, 1973" - Poems New and Collected (1998) - The End and the Beginning (1993)

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I shake my memory. Maybe something in its branches that has been asleep for years will start up with a flutter. No. Clearly I'm asking too much....

I shake my memory. Maybe something in its branches that has been asleep for years will start up with a flutter. No. Clearly I'm asking too much....

I shake my memory. Maybe something in its branches that has been asleep for years will start up with a flutter. No. Clearly I'm asking too much....

I shake my memory. Maybe something in its branches that has been asleep for years will start up with a flutter. No. Clearly I'm asking too much....