![Just a Minute](https://authorbookbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/9781590957448-MI-232x300.jpg)
conceive a child
hear a newborn cry.
While you read a page
the cookies burn.
In a galloping minute
the tide will turn.
How fast a minute races by—
time enough to fall in love
and all the time you need to die.
(For more by Carlene Tejada and “Blue Pearls,” got to www.totalrecallpress.com or www.amazon.com.)