<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></font><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica"><span class="" style="font-style: normal;">Eden in the a.m.</span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;"><br class=""></font></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">In a time of no wind, in a spell of stasis after stars.<br class="">In the almost morning morning, in the dawn before<br class="">the solar dawning, the pause before the prelude,<br class="">the hush that wombs the day, just stay, stay put<br class="">before the roving eye can see, before the ear can hear<br class="">the no-news news. Be here, exactly where you are,<br class="">and where you aren’t, in the unsown garden,<br class="">in the sheer unknowing, in the windless blowing,<br class="">in the fenceless land, in the I before the I began.<br class="">Abide, don’t hide, but neither spin the wheel of fate.<br class="">There is still time. No time at all. Don’t bum-rush<br class="">Eden’s gate. The snake will wait.<br class=""></font></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;"><br></font></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Richard Schiffman</font></font></div></div></body></html>