Ryan Van Winkle
Untitled (Lincoln)
Untitled (Lincoln)
“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Time is nothingness
and this should allow
me to take any transport
I want. And I will not
hurry in hot haste nor
will I look to time
as a challenger,
or to you who rushed
to that train
thinking you were late.
The moon was falling,
tripping over your bags,
and I was wanting
to say you were not late,
that the train would come
again and again
like a dream of falling,
like a starfish
regrowing its arms.
And my arms and time
are nothingness and that
should allow you to take
them in your own time,
deliberately, like boarding
a train you know you want,
with a solid name, a destination
stamped on the front.
