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Here But Gone


The present once noted,

is really the past

 

A thirtieth of a second,

perception if fast

 

Most people are slower,

 the flash that accepts

 

What our psyche affirms

—now gone and reset

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019) 

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