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The present moment
is an explosion ,
a scission
of past and future
leaving
those valorous disreputables
the ruins ,
sentinels
is an unknown dawn
stewn with prophecy .
Only the momentary
google of death
fixes the fugitive
momentum .
43. TIME-BOMB, ca. 1945. First published in Between Worlds 1:2 (Spring/Summer 1961, p.200). This text follows the BW version, which is identical to a signed typescript labeled “Selection to: ‘Between Worlds’ Oct. 1960” (YCAL). Editor’s Note: It is possible that Gilbert Neiman influenced the extra spaces between words and punctuation in this poem, for upon receiving the first batch of submissions from ML he wrote: “For my part…you are not allowing your self the ample spaces you once did” (GN). But these were not the allowances he was referring to.