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Dutch Book of Hours Excerpt
Illustration from
library.rit.edu
yesterdays piled so high
birds can’t reach them
and why should they try
such poor nesting on
withered gray clay
earthen tablets dull
cracks limn dull words
marred depressions
bear negative images
pressed from illuminant
erudite language of life
written long but
not near enough full
while the stack
that damned stack
of tomorrows squats
colorless cold hunched
down low in high shadow
denatured reproving
and merciful merciless
either way pages whose
unnumbered number
is palpably small
Mum Cee 