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TIME by PAUL GERALDY

First Line: YOU TRICKLE BETWEEN OUR FINGERS. WE SCATTER YOU WITH OUR EYES
Last Line: THE MOMENT DROPS LIKE A PEARL TO THE END OF THE THREAD.
Subject(s): MEMORY; TIME;
You trickle between our fingers. We scatter you with our eyes,
But you make us a warm cocoon, O time that flies
With our threaded memories; till before we know,
Eluding our voices, ere our movements go,
Glistening, lustrous, alive, and spirited,
The moment drops like a pearl to the end of the thread.



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