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Possibilities are endless,
and the endless is never.
But the never is not,
even as possibilities are.
What then is the equation?
Is it of time
or the mystery of time
that is the endless possibility
that is never?
Harriet Zinnes
Harriet Zinnes’s many books include the poetry titles Whither Nonstopping, Drawing on the Wall, My,Haven’t the Flowers Been?, prose poems Entropisms, short stories Lover and The Radiant Absurdity of Desire, criticism Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts and Blood and Feathers, translations from the French poetry of Jacques Prevert. She is a contributing editor of The Hollins Critic and as art critic a contributing writer of New York Arts Magazine. She is Professor Emerita of English of Queens College of the City University of New York.