Resuming natural time

   Amid amazing meteorological accidents
   A young couple moves away from the others on the ark,
   -- Is this ancient, pardonable shyness? --
   And sings and takes up the watch.

























Jean-François-Arthur Rimbaud
Les illuminations
  Mouvement
  [fragment]
John Ashbery
  translation
op. cit.

Urs Stooss
Provincetown, 2014