#1559 - where is the hour now?

1559

5.98

7.iv.24

where is the hour now?

on the day we’re not here

 

ahead, behind, who knows?

who keeps it?

 

birds oblivious

rise, still shine

 

roll them back

the great wheels of

must and should and will

 

here’s time owed to us

those old bells!

off like the two-bob watch in the tale

 

the hour is all around us

 

there’s a word for a week away

yesterday will be tomorrow too

 

could be back in the dream

could tell it

miss lunch

have it twice

 

set off on foot

 

lost and found the hour again

very own rabbithole of such

 

where we meet the whipbird in person

 

of course it all needs remembering

 

how there was a rope somewhere

and the tree bends under its own weight

 

spent mine in the tops

a touch of cloud

 

it’s not the cleaning up day

and yet that hour was earmarked

 

slipped into this new zone

some other

 

still sleeping it off

hair of the dog with the extra tail

 

there’s all this overthinking

 

one would like to file that hour away

keep it for a leap year

but we’re there

 

by the time of waking

it’s already used up

 

make a frame

will I lose light here?

will I be gifted?

 

we furnish a day like this