“That climax when the brain acknowledges the world,
all values extended into the blood awake.
Moment of proof. And as they say Brancusi did,
building his bird to extend through soaring air,
as Kafka planned stories that draw to eternity
through time extended. And the climax strikes.”
–From Muriel Rukeyser’s poem “Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds” (1939)

Submitted by Sylvia Renner, Assistant Director, International Funding