An apology, and a new poem

We apologize for the formatting issues that have bugged the page for the past week. Our domain name server updated their servers which knocked out our CName address that this blog uses to redirect the name to this blog. That messed up the formatting until we could get the CName address updated and redirected again. Sorry it took so long.

Any way, let's forget about all of that and enjoy this new poem from Jack Foster (his bio follows the poem):

 

The Importance of Re-Inventing Time

There's this relationship,
This inherent love, between space

and time - as if they're folded
in on each other like linen place-settings.

Really, though, it's more like French bread
sliced up by vectors and velocities.

And it occurs to me that things happen
not at the same time, but in the same planar moment.

Right now, we're sitting outside
of Les Deux Magots, wondering

if we'll ever be in this place again.
But we're so quick to forget

that time and space do not run
like a projector or a slide panel

or some ubiquitous hologram. Someone
somewhere - neither in the past, present, nor future -

is painting, so deftly, a scene of
us on the canvas of the cosmos,

and as I down the last of my Bordeaux, I smile as
your form is watermarked into the setting of the sun.

 

 

Jack Foster is a Ted Pugh Poetry Prize winning author from Southern California where he serves as the production editor for A Few Lines Magazine and the lead editor for Wormwood Chapbooks. His work can be found in various journals such as The Adroit Journal, Pomona Valley Review, Cavalier Literary Couture, and Yes, Poetry. Jack maintains a blog at www.jackfosterpoetry.blogspot.com

Comments

[thomas sabo]

Well

[clarisonic mia]

Well written !