“they say that time heals a broken heart / but time has stood still since we’ve been apart”

[larryhammer]

For Poetry Monday:

“This is the first thing,” Philip Larkin

This is the first thing
I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood.


I assume he means both senses of wood.

---L.

Subject quote from I Can’t Stop Loving You, Ray Charles.