Sampurna Chattarji: Traintime
‘All writing accepts its time, its time’s rhythm, lets it permeate—as when taking a train or riding horseback—’ Edmond Jabès ‘The Book of Resemblances’
Swaying with the straightness
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greenhouse glassheat time
that allows you to travel
with your back to the future
The rhythm of suspension
…
even as it moves unerringly
from second to second
Time full of trees
that takes the leaving behind with you
so that what endlessly recedes
…
appears [simultaneously]
to come along keep pace
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Traintime in which all your
procrastinations can fall and bear fruit