Weekly Poem: 'Around'

**By Rae Armantrout** Time is pleased to draw itself                             out, permit itself pendulous loops, to allow them meaning, _this_ meaning, as it goes                       along. * Chuck and I are pleased to have found a spot where my ashes can be scattered. It looks like a construction site now but it's adjacent to a breathtaking, rocky coast. Chuck sees places where he might snorkel. We're being shown through by a sort of realtor. We're interested but can't get her to fix the price. * "The future is all around us." It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.     "Rae Armantrout":http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/rae-armantrout is the author of 11 books of poetry and winner of numerous other awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. "Around" is taken from her book, "'Versed'":http://www.upne.com/0819568793.html (2010, Wesleyan University Press). She is also a professor of writing and literature at the University of California-San Diego. "We profiled her on Friday's NewsHour.":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june12/poetarmantrout_01-27.html