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147th Weekly Poetry Contest honorable mention: Slicing Time

by Bruce Boston

There is more than
one way to slice
time on the cutting
board of space.
 
Take a photograph
and trap a slice
or time’s instant
trapped in a rectangle.
 
Film a video and
capture a strand
of time’s instants
from the past.
 
Speed up the video
to see an orchid
burst in full bloom
from its calyx
in only seconds,
 
or a monarch’s
crumpled wings
burst in sudden
and startling color
from a drab cocoon.
 
Slow it down
to watch the sure
muscled grace
of a running
thoroughbred,
 
or the strange
range of expressions
that flow across
the shifting muscles
of a human face.

Appeared in Asimov's SF Magazine

147th Weekly Poetry Contest

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