The Anathemata
Rite and Fore-time (page 58)
At this unabiding Omphalosa
this other laughless rock
at the stone of division
above the middle water-deeps2
at the turn of time
not at any time, but at this acceptable time.
From the year of
the lord-out-of-Urb
about two millennia.
Two thousand lents again
since the first barley mow.3
comments
We now begin another theme: man the maker (homo faber).
The reference to Omphalos and the note indicate that we are again thinking of Jerusalem, and the turn of time and not any . . . but this link back to the Last Supper theme.