Analogies for Time

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks, Jeremy Osner!

http://readin.com/analogiesfortime.html

http://www.academia.edu/4743676/Analogies_for_Time

http://www.amazon.com/Analogies-Time-Jeremy-Osner-ebook/dp/B00FTQPGPY

Analogies for Time by Jeremy Osner is a small digital book of
excellent poems. This is an electronic chapbook that begins with the
title poem, which is a wonderful meditation on time and how we swim
and float in it: "Think of time as a river of events/think of time
simply as a river...." and of course as the analogy gets increasingly
concrete, things fall apart and reform.  It ends with a celebration of
being in the moment. It's a brief book, a narrow glance into an
extremely interesting mind, not conventional but certainly not
unconventional for the sake of making a splash:

The dead of 9/11
are photographed
and silent
and the crater they fell into long since filled
with detritus of 21st C. dreams in America
and ragged strips of newsprint
without any columns of ink,
they're blank and they're torn, and the
names of the dead
scroll by beneath the image
of America.

Osner, a computer programmer with a long-standing interest in
languages, sees the structure of things the rest of us only glance at
the surface of. He also has an interesting blog at
http://www.readin.com/ .

http://www.meredithsuewillis.com/bfrarchive161-165.html#poetry165
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