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Poems by Marjorie Welish
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Poems about Time
Individual Time
by Alice Notley
Meeting and Passing
by Robert Frost
Mimosa
by Mary Ruefle
On Time
by John Milton
Poem with Lines from Pierre Reverdy
by Sandra Simonds
Real Time
by Charlie Smith
Slur
by Jacek Gutorow
The Edges of Time
by Kay Ryan
The Moon in Time Lapse
by David Rivard
The Sun-Dial
by Adelaide Crapsey
Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
What God Knew
by Marianne Boruch
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by Marjorie Welish

The poet redirected my likeness.

She said, "Not his decadence, which is a question."
"Time," she said, declining his epidemic.
                                              As if serrated,
initiatives lost modernity: aura reared up
although bracketing pages in comparative matters.
                                                           "What time is it?"
                                                                                "Perspectivism."
Which is a question.
                       As if serrated,
"as if" bracketing pages.

And time again, the timing of a wrecking ball—
                                                      Which is an overture.









From In the Futurity Lounge by Marjorie Welish. Copyright © 2012 by Marjorie Welish. Reprinted with permission of Coffee House Press. All rights reserved.
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