TINO VILLANUEVA
The Slow
Weight of
Time
Endlessly
to no end looking through
memory
(O conscience that accentuates
a
history full of ways to know the
heart) at
what not long ago did happen,
you
turn back to when your offended
little
world was unresolved. Each
thought
is longing to become another,
longing
to sing, once again and always,
deep
into a song of what memory still
might
know. You draw air, press these
thoughts
to paper and release your daily
self
from the lost fragments of the past.
Now:
in the conquered vigil of your
days,
all distance weeps for you as you
drift
out from the journey through
the
slow weight of time, and you claim
that
you are safe forever in the
very
words you have chosen to become.
Copyright ã
1993 by Tino ‑Villanueva, from Scene from the Movie GIANT
(Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1993),
ã 1993
by Tino Villanueva.