Humanity,
with its habit
of invention
can
fastforwardthroughaday
if they had, say,
a clepsydra
and an earthquake
One
is easier to make
than the other
Once
filled, the water waits
wicks, and spills
with little mediation
Out,
clumping, out onto the sand
hours sloshed on grains
lost to a fault’s fault
This
is how to cutaday|inhalf
a sodden simple way
unlimited to adage
Minutes
easily evaporate
leave you to explain
away appointments
with what time will
tell itself
You’ve
lost only what’s
allotted, dimension t
distended particular
It’s
easy enough with effort—
reference for luck and loss
but all that’s
out
cannot be doubted
back in
© James
Cole, 2020
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