# CLXXVII explained — Poetry

> Chapter companion for Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

## What happens

A brief meditation on the present moment as a constantly shifting boundary between past and future.

## Key lines

> The present is the frontier between the desert of the past and the garden of the future. It is redrawn every moment.

Now is the ever-changing border between a barren past and a promising future.

_The chapter consists solely of this aphorism._

## Links

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