"WELL, WELL. . !"

Under the night's
sodium lights

I watched my shadow's
shadow

trying to keep in step
with the flesh and blood me.

I unfastened time
:- all hooks and eyes -:

laughed as unloosened
it floundered in a drain

as my mind made
its escape

( not tied to this
body or to me

free to wander
amongst the falling rain

hide in the space
between sound and sound

become one thing
- one thing only -

becoming now
- all things -

But see the rain ceases
to talk to itself

and I hooked up time
:-  moment to moment  -:

so that it resumed
doing what it ought to.

The last train of thought
had already left.

A moon lay asleep
in a tiny puddle.

I stepped over it
careful not to disturb

its slumber

a busker played
AROUND MIDNIGHT

as if we were
in a movie.

"Well, well..!
I tell myself
"Well, well!"