FORTY YEARS TO GO

Louise Ho

Long before the event
Two parties agreed
The structure in place
Must not be altered

(Contractual terms
Try to fix what in time
Time changes anyway)


This frenetic dynamo of a place
Protean as ever
Stretching this way and that
In multiple dimensions___
Who is to say
This dense matter of a beast
Would not stretch the next ten
To sixty or more
Or reduce forty
To a mere twenty
Or less?


Louise Ho

Filed under : EDITION : The Fifty Shrinking Years