Experimentation in standard time

Autumn urban afternoons

get shorter and sweeter -

standing in the middle of I street

I await a very specific angle on the bow

as my ship called Earth comes about:

a unique perspective on how time passes –

in the distance you can see Virginia:

but how many beats per measure

are there in Standard time?

the future is reaching back to join us,

to warn us, to help us alter course

to starboard so we can pass port to port –

the present and the future,

like two ships, passing in a storm.

We post to a blog or sing a song:

we write some non-rhyming words

we call poetry –

and time is a social construct

a contractual agreement we accept

from fear of things we don’t know –

dawn to dusk, high noon

to the darkest part of night –

a 24 second shot clock.

We sink a three pointer

that leaves a vacuum in its wake –

the chain nets echo its refrain.

11/05/2013