Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TIME SPACE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT


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TIME SPACE, by                    
First Line: Into the universe I crawl
Last Line: And time a dream. . . .
Subject(s): God; Metaphysics; Space & Space Travel; Time; Universe; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


Into the Universe I crawl --
The table-top -- the Sky;
Man on a mountain -- mouse from a wall --
Observer, I.

I shall see what I shall see:
Time -- the Fourth Space --
The inkwell -- the Pleiades --
A god's face.

Push on, point, through your line;
Line, through your square;
Rise, square, your cube define --
A god is there.

Box of God, arise, arise,
Three-dimensional;
Through the contracting skies
Upward fall.

Into your fourth estate
Expanding, climb;
Swing the gods' arched gate
On the hinge of Time.

Let illusion fall away,
Skyscrapers seem
Blocks tossed aslant in play --
And Time a dream. . . .





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