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" ALL IN TIME

With something to do,
No wonder I sit at the typewriter.
Behind me, the clock has the
Monotonous voice of a parent.
Always it is something else I prefer.
The dictionary is a moving fanfare.
The compressed words of my life.

I walk down Longest Avenue holding my umbrella.
Information, merely information;
Everywhere bone sparkle,
Radials sifting deeper into ooze.
How I am coming apart.
How I scatter.
The air sparkles with my dust.

Sir William Herschel saw pinpoints
Of another kind of space
From which the milk of galaxies were poured,
As from a pitcher.
What is this universe that occupies my face?
I travel in an orderly erratic place.
I am a particle,
I am going toward something. I am complicated,
And yet, how simple is my verse. "

Ruth Stone , Essential Ruth Stone


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Ruth Stone quote : ALL IN TIME<br /><br />With something to do, <br />No wonder I sit at the typewriter.<br />Behind me, the clock has the <br />Monotonous voice of a parent.<br />Always it is something else I prefer.<br />The dictionary is a moving fanfare.<br />The compressed words of my life.<br />…<br />I walk down Longest Avenue holding my umbrella.<br />Information, merely information;<br />Everywhere bone sparkle,<br />Radials sifting deeper into ooze.<br />How I am coming apart.<br />How I scatter.<br />The air sparkles with my dust. <br />…<br />Sir William Herschel saw pinpoints <br />Of another kind of space<br />From which the milk of galaxies were poured,<br />As from a pitcher. <br />What is this universe that occupies my face?<br />I travel in an orderly erratic place. <br />I am a particle, <br />I am going toward something. I am complicated,<br />And yet, how simple is my verse.