MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Eugene Datta: There’s No Such Thing as Time

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Issue 30X:	Dec. 2025
Micro-Poem:	28 words

By Eugene Datta

There’s No Such Thing as Time

It’s just the count 
of my breaths 

between your last smile 
and the next, 

and in between 
the turning of the seasons.

Bio: Eugene Datta

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