Poetry of Eli Siegel
A Question
What is the relation of justice and time
Is the dearest question in the world,
Thought she, without knowing it,
On a street corner of the West;
In a season, in a moment,
With a red light coming through glass,
And one leaf on a whole river.
From The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known #318 (Aesthetic Realism Foundation)
© 1956, 1979 by Eli Siegel