This is the story of a long second,
not a minute, too long, or an hour,
too much plot, too many characters,
too much dialogue, between and within.
What can happen in a second, you wonder.
Not much.
But if you pause going forward,
if linger and wait,
n o t i c e,
you are a sponge of time soaked full of the past,
you are a stone of awareness dropped into the present.