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: 

  1. inhale—exhale: 4 seconds
  2. breakers on a shore: 10 seconds
  3. wash and dry: 80 minutes
  4. tide—neap and ebb: 6 hours
  5. productive recording
    session: 12 hours
  6. a cut healing: 8 days
  7. leaves on a tree: 6 months
  8. getting over a friend's
    abuse: 1 - 5 years
  9. trouser cuffs—pegged
    to flared and back: 28 years
  10. a civilization: 400 years
  11. overcoming the loss of
    a true love: eternity


Minsk, USSROctober 1984