as clear as time when the air was green
and tenderfeet knew the ballet of beginning
a tern-like teen on one leg
in the surf by a sea, a swift
on a draft of blinks in the hour of
someday-but-not-now
time is a cornucopia of elegies
the master of poets complicit
since the word became flesh
Jim Culleny
2/28/13
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