Three thin communication towers flash red or white latticed, reminiscent of Eiffel’s wind-resistant core taper to the size of a needle, thumb’s distance away elegant sky skewers on the horizon.
Archive for the ‘Time’ Category
Distance creates delicacy
Posted in Time on March 11, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
The Pieces
Posted in Community, Guanajuato, Mosaic, Time on March 23, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I search again through the just-opened mound a 1000-piece puzzle a promise of calm, time without limit
Darkness Drops
Posted in Aging, Fear, impermanence, Protest, Time on February 26, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming (1919)
Accident(al)
Posted in Existential, Time on September 11, 2016 | 2 Comments »
Too cliché to say life changes in a blink the flash the overturn
I used to tell time by the look on your face
Posted in Relationships, Time on May 18, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
It wasn’t time to wake up yet, even if the birds were singing, if your face was relaxed with predawn sleep, eyes closed, your lips parting slightly with the audible exhale you claimed I made up because you “didn’t snore.”