Little Father Time

“If I write for anyone, I wrote for you;

So whisper, when I die, We was too few;

Write over me (if you can write; I hardly knew)

That I—that I—but anything will do,

I'm satisfied. . . .”

 —Randall Jarrell, “A Conversation with the Devil”

[Contents, if any, yet to be assigned.]

Epigraph: Jarrell was thinking here, he explains, of the boy nicknamed “Little Father Time" in Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure, who hangs himself and his two half-siblings, leaving a note that reads: "Done because we are too menny [sic].”

Tuesday, February 24, 2026