I no longer care

for late afternoons

nor suburbs.

I like the centre

of town,

I like the city,

and I like the morning.

I like the morning

mid-town,

the hope one has,

that illusion

that each day

could be the beginning

of something,

which wears away

as the day

passes.

That illusion

at the beginning

of each morning

is what I like,

and I encourage it.

That is to say,

now I like

the morning

and the late

morning.

Found poem: a response by Jorge Luis Borges to a questioner at a symposium, published in Borges the Poet, edited by Carlos Cortinez (Fayetville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1986), p. 46.