Time climbs
the sycamores,
seeking a resting place,
a nesting place
to contemplate its passing.
No words can express
the sadness.
Wind whips across
the lawn,
scattering leaves,
slapping trees
for their insolent
refusal to fall.
All directions collapse
into one,
into none
worth following.
We break under the weight
of the void.
It insists on absolute
emptiness.
I am full, a plenum.
This phrase tells no one
the truth.
Words scatter on the wind.
Words crackle in the leaves.
Poets guard ancient
initiation rites.
Mystery settles on the Muse.
Silence burrows underground,
digs for gold.
Only dull ore rises
to the surface.
Flakes scatter on the wind,
disjointed,
clattering
through the sleepy dawn.
Shadows obscure Time
as it exhales
the past.
The future photosynthesizes,
green, green,
with broken
promises.
Time weeps for no one.
Broken limbs, tenuous twigs
snap under
the weight
of a plenum.
Time wrestles the void.
Time is full.
But it’s
cracking.