#1830 - time's signature

 

1830

6.2

2.i.25

time’s signature

notes for concert pieces / clock series

 

the lined brow, step worn

 

wheel to which broken

 

careful with time

you touch and it crumbles

 

it’s full of luck as well

 

think of the colours

we speak of inhabited

 

in flutter leaf

and on the wing

 

a toe tap too

calendrical

 

think of just a month consisting

 

day night

grey insect whirr

so breeze it

 

speak of time and it’s gone

 

will it without witness

in the airless vast?

 

think of it as a rule you’ve broken

no

 

note and then next

come chord

glissando

 

hands tied

all pointing too

 

bend to this iron will

 

step after another

wave upon shore

 

time’s kept

in a box of fits

 

it overlaps with where we are

 

see out the window though

see the window through

 

it’s every swimmer for a self

just as the heart beats on

 

repeat a pattern

after me

does what I do

 

sometimes you’ll feel a year beginning

 

we try it at home

 

it’s only just occurred to us

 

these deeps where we’ve been thrown