Catherine Barnett on her selections: Because there are so many texts I love and because of the radical adjustments we’ve had to make in the space-time continuum, I chose to curate a small collection of poems and prose excerpts, each of which takes notice of, or is somehow guided by, time. I’ve included the following poems and excerpts; a collection I’m calling “On the Specious Present and the So-Called Obvious Past.” Philip Larkin, "Days" From Samuel Beckett's "Texts for Nothing, #3" Dominique Bechard, "Half a Party" Gwendolyn Brooks, "An Aspect of Love: Alive in the Fire and Ice" Guillaume Apollinaire, “There Is” or "Il y a" Claudia Rankine, "Weather" John Berger, from "Paul Strand" Saskia Hamilton, “On. On. Stop. Stop.” Wislawa Szymborska, "May 16, 1973" Yiyun Li, from "Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life" Jean Valentine, “For Love” Rick Barot, “The Galleons 4” Ellen Bryant Voigt, “Storm" Paul Celan, "So many constellations" (trans. Michael Hamburger) Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0