Listening to Plainchant 
cat sits on an universe 
many light years from 
 
here...scat cat....I shoo him off 
the Colour Suppliment. 
 
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TIME PAST IS TIME TO COME 
 
Wandering 'round my flat 
Hildegard Von Bingen 
dressed in her music 
dissolving the centuries 
perching on the Autumn leaves
Dónall Dempsey
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sunday-times-tankas-for-ruthie/