DAYLIGHT SAVING
- for Pam
I do the dutiful thing and turn my clocks
forward - or back - but then I conjure
an extra twelve minutes, nudge them in
to fatten the middle of the hour
giving myself a little extra
forward - or back - but then I conjure
an extra twelve minutes, nudge them in
to fatten the middle of the hour
giving myself a little extra
Time to play with.
I am rebel. Thief.
A friend and I agree that Time
and second hands should be tied
behind the backs of doors, banished
bound with flat faces pressed
to the corner. We flip Time around
our wrists, make it lie down.
I tell her I once knew a clock
with eyes instead of hands.
It kept watch from a clean white mantlepiece
in a honey-coloured room.
We listen for chimes outside
the window and when the wind blows
in the right direction, hear Time trip
down the cathedral steps and take
to the streets.
I am tempted to wave as it passes.
CB 2002
That time again! It's come too soon.
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Mim
It does seem to come around awfully fast, doesn't it, Mim?
DeleteYour turn next. . . Forward we go, back you do. Back you go, forward we do. . .
We live inside a circle.
Love, Claire xo
A lovely and recognizable summation of time, which I believe may be more myth than reality until I examine the accounting sheets and see it is no longer when it once was. Still, I resist its tyranny. xo
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ReplyDeleteI first read 'myrrh' where you had written 'myth'. This seems to be happening a fair bit at the moment. . . why, just a day or two ago, I read 'Eeyore' instead of 'Eye-sore'. The world is getting curiouser and curiouser!
Time = myth = myrrh. I like that, don't you? (And yes, we do well to resist its tyranny, for despite its illusory quality, it does make a considerable dent in things, doesn't it?).
xo