Time And Its Passing

By Mickey Karger. Hardcover, 146 pages. I am the great Rememberer and Forgetter.In one life I slay you in childhood, in another I grow you into an old man;in both, before the beginning of each, I wipe the memory away.I dream my dreams in you, and breathe my longing into your breath.I am the bright singing in your eyes.I am the last thought you have before you fall asleep.I am the hunger in your heart, the thirst in your soul for something more .I am the weight of days and the great wide arc of memory.I am the diaphanous membrane of memory which only longing can pierce.I am that sigh heard and remembered across the centuries.I am the long thoughts, the long memories, the long hopes.I am that which is forever lost, found and wasted.I am that wordless poetry struck into verse by the wind and meteredby the stars.I am the stiffly spoken speech of indignation.I am the wordless speech of eye gazing when you love.I am the burning and the coolness.I am the ocean and the eye drop of water trembl