<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="left"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td>Quartz Clock<br> <br>The ideas of a physicist<br>can be turned into useful objects:<br>a rocket, a quartz clock,<br>a microwave oven for cooking.<br>The ideas of poems turn into only themselves,<br>as the hands of the clock do,<br>or the face of a person.<br>It changes, but only more into the person.<br></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table><br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Jane Hirshfield</div></body></html>