03:00
Up again too soon `
Minutes click by like clay beads
on a raveled thread
05:00
Dreamscape A single scull
splits the glass-smooth stream
its wake a healing scar
08:00
Aflutter
in the specimen case
Impaled on the arrow of time
12:00
Noon lull Breeze takes a break
Even shadows rest from sun-sped
shrink and stretch
14:00
Juice of two lemons
Sugar enough to quell pucker
Water to taste
16:30
Forget-me-not,
sighs the twice-cut flower
dumb to how much love it takes
19:00
The benediction
of horizontal light:
Sunset’s burnished hour
23:59
Your slow motion wink
mocks the ever-swelling dark —
Goodnight waning moon
***
Gerald Jonas is a senior editor at WhoWhatWhy and a writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, as well as other journals large and small.
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