1978-05-17

They seem so discreet …
each moment from the other
the times we lay loving
and, with sweat glistening skins, pressing
are so far from the moments when we talk
and from the moments we gaze with love

Where are all of these … when we meet
for just a moment … between moments …
that we’ve touched and lost the world
does it matter … when the neon hours
come to claim us?

How can it be so disconnected …
I almost wonder if Pincheon and Vonnegut
are right … time is discontinuous
to those whose eyes
burnt all the veils away

Can deja vu be, perhaps, just other moments
passing us … pressing us
does it matter that we’ve touched
before or after ….

gallagher

17 may 78


— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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