Nairn

Age puts distance between present and past

stretching lengths longer than any string 

connecting time present in electricity

to time past in books made of paper pulped from trees

to photographs and film to ruins that outlast

time present time future wherever we can ping

For only at sea far from land in a sailboat

or on land far from a road can I imagine 

sempiternal time’s wild attractions

alone with whatever weather sky apportions

alive that moment wearing not wasting time’s coat

unbuttoning time’s blouse I imagine

Entangled with my muse timeless and eternal

Age puts distance between present and past

Dick Russell © Richard M Russell

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