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Time

Hank Barthel

Who I am, now
I can't be as sure
as looking at old
photographs and
remembering a scene,
or those people.

Likewise, where I will
be, maybe six hours from
now, is clearer than
this time, here,
at the kitchen table looking
out the window at
frosted leaves and orange morning light.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XXXXXX XXXXXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 266
Words 52
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 7
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