[What’s freedom for? To know eternity.
I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
But who would count eternity in days?]
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways.)


    — Theodore Roethke, from “I Knew a Woman” (thanks, whisperbodyelectric)

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