BLACK OXEN YEARS

"The years like great black oxen
          tread the world,
And God the herdsman
          goads them on behind,
And I am broken
          by their passing feet."

William Butler Yeats [1865-1939], The Countess Cathleen [1892], last lines.

Painting on top: Abstract Painting [1963] by Ad Reinhardt [1913-1967]