Ryoko Sekiguchi—a Japanese poet and French essayist known for the Russian translations of her books *Nagori* and *961 Hours in Beirut*—consistently explores the nature of time and how we "negotiate" with it. Whether her subject is the Japanese perception of the changing seasons, the life of a multifaceted and polyphonic Levantine city, or the tragedy at Fukushima, she writes about how we remember, forget, savor moments, and overlook the passing years. In this short piece—which blends elements of diary entries, prose poetry, and philosophical essays—the human voice serves to reveal time, existing paradoxically always in the present.