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The Beauty of Time

Peter Magliocco

That winter we discarded our spirits
Because they were outmoded
(things stuck in the ether
Of previous generations) as
We went about our business.
How your mother talked about
Being in a state of grace
Just before she converted
Meant nothing to us. We were
Not cloudy with illusions,
As she was; but still
Her beliefs remained palpably
Strong as something beyond
Any comatose dreaming.

You sketched her ashen face
To attempt preserving
All that she talked about.
The mercy extant
In every living thing
Evaded your charcoal lines,
But you persevered because
Art outlives us all,
Proof that something
Remains more immortal
Than flesh-made man.

The beauty of time
Is that it stops for no one,
Living or dead.
It is like a law of nature,
Infinite as space,
& just as indivisible,
she said before dying;

but our spirits had
preceded her
to become

the purity
of
snow

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