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TIME ZONES OF THE WORLD
By Alice Bolstridge
This map measures clock time,
pole to pole divisions as the earth
moves the sun around itself, as though time
were an endless day by day succession—
light and dark, light and dark—
which it is. We sleep and wake
with the daily turning, live
by measured breath, heartbeat,
cycles of yearning and feeding.
But memory transcends the day,
creates history out of the diffuse past,
searching the earth for origins
in the Eastern Zones, Africa to the Orient,
and all the way around to the Western Zones
in the New World. Out of the artifacts,
we debate distinctions that make us
human—measuring time in lines of poems—
and try to forget connections
that keep us animal.
We need the perspective of the stars,
the earth and all its life and time,
an embryo in a universe that stretches
back and back to an indefinite,
unmeasured Zone 0.
We are each old as Eternity.
Ancient hungers, fears, and ecstasies flow
through our atoms, streaming back
through the DNA molecules of apey hominids,
tiny primates, fish, microbes, back
through the cosmic dust of elements
aching, even then, to live.
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