{"id":66263,"date":"2025-03-05T00:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T00:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=66263"},"modified":"2025-03-05T00:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T00:42:52","slug":"momentary-by-bruce-mcrae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/momentary-by-bruce-mcrae\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentary by Bruce McRae"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Momentary<\/p>\n

Momentary<\/h2>\n

by Bruce McRae<\/p>\n

This moment in time
\ndepends on a suspension of disbelief,
\non the unwritten mores and motifs
\nof the mobile vulgus.<\/p>\n

This moment is the last moment,
\nand the next, and the next to last.
\nWhere you’re in a musty corner
\nof an ever-expanding universe
\nand watching the clock grow old, when
\nyou’re a polished stone, desire’s afterglow,
\na sum in the long division.<\/p>\n

The moments come and go,
\nminute scenarios as seen from a train,
\na cycle of stories about to be told,
\nan augment of imagination.<\/p>\n

This moment is captured in amber.
\nThis moment is stealing a kiss from God.
\nAnd this one slips the net,
\na golden sturgeon at the head of the rapids.<\/p>\n

Time murders truth and trust and toreadors,
\nthis moment a million Buddhas
\nin the Asia of your mind, a billion instances.
\nAnd this moment now, this vacant heart,
\nthis neverness in the grand forever.<\/p>\n

Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. The winner of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his next book, ‘Boxing In The Bone Orchard’ is coming out in the Spring of 2025 via Frontenac House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bruce McRae’s ‘Momentary’ explores the paradoxical nature of time through vivid imagery and philosophical contemplation. The poem captures fleeting instants as both insignificant and infinite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemporary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}