April 29, 2017

Measure



(2016)

Tuesday is the diligence of pencils. 

Thursday is papers piled—

irregular as gopher mounds.

Friday is a clock. 

 

I measure time

no less than time measures me—

the verdict:

habitual innocence.

 

What I am told

is not always what I feel.

 

Saturday’s recalcitrant crowds

by Sunday are bones.

 

Others measure it differently.