memento mori
A surprising juxtaposition of the seventeenth century with classical times.
A. A. Knopf reminds us that Poetry Month is coming with this lovely lyric by Jane Hirshfield
Quartz Clock
The ideas of a physicist
can be turned into useful objects:
a rocket, a quartz clock,
a microwave oven for cooking.
The ideas of poems turn into only themselves,
as the hands of the clock do,
or the face of a person.
It changes, but only more into the person.