time traveler

time traveler

By Natasha Deonarain

the past tense is used to transform a verb that denotes an event occurring now / happening in the present moment / for example she falls / or a state of being like she is / into something that is not happening right now / an event already complete and having slipped through time / time being an abstract concept / often made concrete through depictions of a liquid tunnel—

into which one enters   or by time-lapse photographs of streaks  of brightly colored stars   radiating away   from a centrally located fixed object in space     that may or may not be trapped in a space capsule   and thrust into the unknown      before or after    away from our immediate love and perception—                     

the event in question       having slipped through time      is now contained in the past         and represented        as a past      for example she lives      becomes she lived    followed by       the indirect object        and/or preceded by an adjective     intended to enhance said noun. for example a great life          life meaning the state that follows birth     and precedes death    or the state of being alive and living      as an event that’s now complete—