Tempus fugit

By Samuel Menashe

For John Thornton

Fellow fugitive

Forgive yourself

And me thereby

Thus we can live

Whatever’s left

Of time for us,

Each day a gift

We take on trust

Source: Poetry (September 2009)

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Samuel Menashe earned acclaim as the creator of numerous compact and precise poems. His first American volume, No Jerusalem But This, was praised by Stephen Spender for "language intense and clear as diamonds." Spender declared that Menashe "can compress an attitude to life that...

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