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The tolling bell
Measures time not our time, rung by the unhurried
Ground swell, a time
Older than the time of chronometers, older
Than time counted by anxious worried women
Lying awake, calculating the future,
Trying to unweave, unwind, unravel
And piece together the past and the future,
Between midnight and dawn, when the past is all deception,
The future futureless, before the morning watch
When time stops…
— Oct 06, 2026 07:03AM
Measures time not our time, rung by the unhurried
Ground swell, a time
Older than the time of chronometers, older
Than time counted by anxious worried women
Lying awake, calculating the future,
Trying to unweave, unwind, unravel
And piece together the past and the future,
Between midnight and dawn, when the past is all deception,
The future futureless, before the morning watch
When time stops…
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Oct 06, 2026 10:54PM
Are you becoming very modern, Katia?
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Jan-Maat wrote: "Are you becoming very modern, Katia?"I’ve always been, my dear Jann😉. But seriously i love modernism more than any other period/style in terms of writing.