Volume 2, Issue 2, February 1995

LEARNING TO COUNT

Years change swiftly now and are less tractable.
The world still spins to shadowbox with cares.
Love alone, they say, sustains us - but love drifts in all directions,an officious wind taking the leaves of trees from place to place.
Out of my chest, out of my hand one poem tumbles and it is doubtful that any wonders will.
Only half my fear and doubts have been realized yet the other half cling to my skin like leeches. I cover my age with rags and inquiries.
As a child I counted animals, sometimes stars; in my teens, only the hours and the minutes; in my twenties, days and weeks.
Next it was months and years.
Now I'm looking at decades and centuries.
Shall I learn to count eternities?
(Written by John Asfour in "One Fish From The Rooftop", published by Cormorant Books).

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