Monday, July 25, 2022

Time Warp


Time Warp: "A hypothetical eccentricity of time moving back and forth between eras." Past and future, present in the poet's life. 
 
Dinnertime as a child ("When we sat to eat I looked at Daddy first, sniffed the air, alert").
 
A marriage's Mayday distress call ("Earthquake. Sudden trembling, accumulated energy, quick release along the faults"). 
 
Questions of aging in Feuilleton ("Do I sit and wait until I'm rickety, particular about my cereal, my Scotch?").



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's lovely. I grew up on 80 acres in northern Michigan and share that same lost language. I was in the midst but never truly knew the names and words of all the life around me.