An Encounter with Time

Time appeared to me

And when she spoke

She softly said,

                  “Take hold my hands and watch them glide,

                  And let the waves heal your seconds with each weep”

         Analog

         Communication

         Digitalis

         Cries

For the fox whispers into gloves on this night

         Animating glands within

         Pressure plated strands of yin

         Faded from the

         Withered waltz

         Since destiny passed last march

And so the fox tilts back its ruffled neck, as it sits atop its rigid parapet

         Amassing all anthologies

         Created amongst the masks of stone

         Crawls creation back into its often weathered home

         Made of clay and soil thus

         Sifting birth through plated palm

Back into the hole protracted

By the hands of man in trust

The fox’s song ignites the air, forgetting the form in which it breathes, yet the sound produced is pleasant still, mournful, yet proclaimed with such a joyous ease, so smooth, yet sung with a jaded crush, to that it lost and loved as much.

Time appeared to me

And when she spoke

She softly said,

                           “Return to me.”

Ragged Dependency

Is it often the calf?

We bind hip, tied to-

Stretched strand, taut snap

Elasticity.

From the kneeling knife

Amidst motion’s pendulum

Is it the vagueness of recoil?

Leaving fingerprints, partial or full-

That traces swirl to reel,

A corkscrewed collaboration-

From reverence to

Severed crux.

From the frozen pin climbing

The breast of a monolithic shill

Is it partition?

Standing in two-

Blockading here to there-

Unaware.

A shallow craftsmanship

Barely conceals separation and scream

Rue and Desire

Two sides, to a man

Cufflinks to ragged dependency

Each, therein a construct of