"We vaunt our days in neon"

Merwin, Cortez, Dickinson, Dixon, Plath

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W.S. Merwin:

Jayne Cortez:

Emily Dickinson:

[Look back/on Time,/with kindly/Eyes - /He doubtless/did his best - /How softly
sinks that/trembling Sun /In Human/Nature’s West -]

Melvin Dixon:

Sylvia Plath:

Bud Powell, “Tempus Fugit,” rec. January-February, 1949:

Philomena Cunk asks "What is clocks?" at the 'Greenwich Clock Museum’:

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