The Varieties of Temporal Experience by Michael D. Jackson

Author:Michael D. Jackson [Jackson, Michael D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780231186018
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2018-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

My father used it to inscribe

parallel lines where his tenon

saw would bite, or chisel

begin a mortice joint; it

played its part in making

our toys, our furniture.

Now, no day passes that I do not

measure my work against his,

asking whether the words

I use, the bright ideas,

the balanced sentences,

can equal what he built for us.

Each day I go home

to my own children

with unblemished hands,

no cut from the teeth of a tenon saw

or bruise from a claw hammer;

empty as he also felt

when away from his tools

serving time in a bank, balancing

ledgers, blotting the red

and black inked figures, attending

to customers. We both

have been at odds with ourselves,

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