subtext

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Tends Toward Blindness

“next year’s words await another voice”
 T.S. Eliot, from Little Gidding
always ongoing
and too close
for reflection’s static
attention to maintain
the moment’s difference
here I am but not then
so far away even when
I stood (again the then)
within that very day
with eyes wide open

missing it all

(January 29, 2015)