Thursday, October 20, 2005



Time


Time - it is strange - it is strangely beautiful too
never to know what it is

and yet how much that lives in us is older
than we are, how much of it will outlive us

as a new-born child can look as though it is looking
at something inside itself, something it was given
to bring along with it

as Rembrandt looks in the last self-portraits
as though he can see where he is going
into a distance beyond our eyes

from the Dutch of Rutger Kopland


translated by James Brockway

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