TIME CYCLES: When bones begin to speak


IMAGE: Two converse skulls with a myriad rayonist diatoms emerging from them.

Linda: Humans generally perceive time in very anthropomorphic ways, don't they?

Ron:   Of course. Why be prolix about it?

Linda: (gazing at the image, then muttering to herself) Bones have a lot to tell us if we look closely.

Lex:   If we have enough patience, so many things start to speak.

Lis:   Perhaps that is why oracle bones were used in ancient China?

Ron:   (with a noncommittal voice ) Well, perhaps.


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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Some reflections on the perception of time. 
KEYWORDS:  anthropomorphism, time perception, oracle bones

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 2007 in Tokyo, Japan  ✠ Finished: 2022 in Shizuoka, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}}  

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