Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock….
Old Adams and Eves on the ageless rock
awash in oceans that spit shells and muck.
The shrinking Earth can never run nor walk
as wilful living do around the clock,
so it must spin and spin as timeless talk. *** It’s late at night, I’m counting sheep, a knock,
it's wind? I thought of Keats’s sweet hemlock.
And sleep has fled. A tick…though not a tock.
My kitten's, on the windowsill yawning
enframed by stars where no human race is, no Eliot's cat, one who could disconnect
nothing from nothing. Sleepy…nothing...tock.
Old Adams and Eves on the ageless rock
awash in oceans that spit shells and muck.
The shrinking Earth can never run nor walk
as wilful living do around the clock,
it's wind? I thought of Keats’s sweet hemlock.
And sleep has fled. A tick…though not a tock.
My kitten's, on the windowsill yawning
enframed by stars where no human race is,
nothing from nothing. Sleepy…nothing...tock.
