Kit Kelen #1429 - tick tock

1429

tick tock

there’s some part of the clock we inhabit

tell the tune far far green

somewhere we certain anxious rush

or signature of time

trails off

you couldn’t dream the numbers

they get you off

metabolism a Christmas come

and Easter in

hair trigger

further in a season fold

under hat

with tip tap rain

and here for ease

a grace note rest

we’ll come to the top by’n’by

it’s next year in Jerusalem

here is my rewards card

tricks first of fire

when time burnt a hole

in all pockets

when we were young, beautiful

never knew

and now is it a battery runs down?

who can tell mechanism?

wind-up tribes of a crime have flocked

surveillance!  all under eternity’s eye

luck pours through and out

the others side

tap dripping still

only the night of hours between

fell into the mirror once

came up with this form of words

and it’s here the condemned

welcome dawn again

into the lonely cell

association’s progress scars

I was that rabbit

fob watch in my face

and mustn’t mustn’t be late