Still Water
Prose Poems
Copyright @ 1989 by Arthur Garfunkel
ISBN 0-525-24795-5
Used by persmission of Author - All Rights Reserved
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DURATIONS:
inhaleexhale:
4 seconds
breakers on a shore:
10 seconds
wash and dry:
80 minutes
tideneap and ebb:
6 hours
productive recording
session:
12 hours
a cut healing:
8 days
leaves on a tree:
6 months
getting over a friend's
abuse:
1 - 5 years
trouser cuffspegged
to flared and back:
28 years
a civilization:
400 years
overcoming the loss of
a true love:
eternity
Minsk, USSR
October 1984