TRANS… (York 9)
now then
you asked me
to respond
not ex
plain de
scribe
tell
the truth
lies
between the road’s
surface
lieslieslieslieslieslieslieslieslies
and its verge
ing on the herenow
of …fixed moments
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…ported
to the present
fixed point
each conscious of an ex
act
location
heldholding you then to now
now to then
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y our me
mories blink
im
patient
ly in
untime to the beat
ing
cars
you exist
now
only in the gaps in traffic
you exist
then
through the windscreen
across the bonnet
all over the metalled
arterial sur
face
that exists now
and then
now
then
nowthen
now then
there
there
there
therethere
is that better now
then