CRUMBLING IN TIME: Some Reflections on Human Achievement


IMAGE:  A collage of skulls, barnacles, an atomic bomb, and a German soldier. 


Ron: 	I know the feeling of crumbling . . .

Lis: 	Yeah, when you think about it closely, it's amazing any of us are in one piece.

Linda: 	Crumbling – it keeps us humble. All human glory amounts to nothing but a few moments in the sun.

Lis: 	That's the way it should be. Our real measure is not our external achievements.

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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Some thoughts about wholeness, fragmentation, and fissure.
KEYWORDS: fragmentation, displacement, discontinuity, splintering, dilapidation


Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 2007 in Shizuoka (Japan)  ✠  Finished: 2021 Yokohama (Japan)
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