#463 - if I had an extra hour

 

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if I had an extra hour

 

breathe in

bed of course

throw questions to  

 

mainly however on foot

through these fronds

and peak

 

it would consist of mansion ages

 

I’d stop practising

I’d get the job done

I’d…

 

I’d wear it on my sleeve, not swallow

…wouldn’t go shopping

I’d look in the boxes

get to the bottom of the fridge

 

if I had an extra hour

no, I calculate I’d need three or four

then a little in the way of moments to accompany

 

and eight more lives, a slept year

new house for every dream

and ancient also

 

I’d dryclean, sweep, polish - No!

what am I thinking?

we’d have that conversation

 

if I had one more hour

I’d make it last

 

I’d stage a little resurrection

call it Sunday too

be born again

go on a cave crawl

 

towards a bath and dinner

catching a breeze as I go

 

really not as ever before but

 

and take this hour as far as it goes

 

climb it like a cloud

 

the afternoon laughter

a backyard thereof

 

birdbath preen splash

 

I would test out all of our chairs

 

if I had one more hour

then this would be the day

to think what I could do with two!

 

it would be the garden

lake still, oars up, stop the world

 

I’d be walking tide along

shall we make splendid of the shade?
then autumn still

and secret where we find the hour

like a poem harbour midst

cranes draw high

just for the view

just for fun

 

and maybe arrive on time