bill hayward’s The American Memory Project

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ETERNITY – jason shinder

A poem written three thousand years ago

about a man who walks among horses
grazing on a hill under the small stars

comes to life on a page in a book

and the woman reading the poem,
in the silence between the words,

in her kitchen, filled, with a gold, metallic light,
finds the experience of living in that moment
so clearly described as to make her feel finally known

by someone — and every time the poem is read,

no matter her  situation or her age,
this is more or less what happens.