WORK IN PROGRESS
The life of effort disappears behind the life of grace, of passivity. Simone Kotva on Simone Weil, EFFORT AND GRACE 162
Civil daffodils
droop from neat high street planters,
nod in August heat.
Their yellow has paled.
Only my passive, vagrant
eye pauses to look.
I stand abstracted
from the uncivil traffic
by the flow of time.
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