Kit Kelen #89 - I found the hour

89

I found the hour

I found the hour you lost

it was down a long way

back paddock

well below the socks

and sinking

but I prised it up

hard to say how

it was certainly

stuck under something

like dragging

through paint

on the way to dry

like daylight saving

and it ends

every day

it was in a garden tangle

where things 

had come unbidden

some heaving required

got it up in the end

felt like a scarecrow slipped from a nail

I came home

to an intimate knowledge

of dust

there's a lifetime's worth of hours

pockets and patches and cul-de-sacs

it's like a shed and the great outdoors

and there's just

no telling time

because open-ended

so as long as we can

live forever

all the books will be read

there should be no problems at all

how to refresh an ancient flokati

- that's my next big puzzle

then there's the old track through the ferns

down to the plank bridge

that's a machete

turns out all the hours ahead are still there

there's a lot of deciding

a lot to do