Time Stands Still
A Stream of Consciousness Poem
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2 min readMay 31, 2022
Time stands still
In the face of a drop of water
That hangs unmoving, un-dripping on the end of a faucet.
Gravity has not yet worked its dark magic.
A 95-year-old woman lounges contentedly
On her screened-in back porch overlooking a deep slow-moving river.
At one time she and her…