Reveries on Time and Place December, 98 (written at Peter Grimes, SF Opera, Dec. 2)   Melodies of distant news Songs of yesterday and views of home And stolen moments caught In shafts of light Today, like scattered diamonds Thrown as stones Unknown But many years ago. The curtain falls in mid idea Augmented chords are etched in light and stretched in place Where grace suspended oscillates in time The pantomime As shadow play Resumes