Sunday, March 08, 2015

Chronometer

Yikes. Today's word from Dictionary.com is chronometer, which is basically a timepiece designed especially for accuracy. This is hard, people. You should definitely donate some money to Tupelo Press to reward my valiant efforts.

Chronometer

cavity
but not the sleeping hand
to wind and wind.

forms
I could only hold on for so long.
tell me of the small dress.

dark
what do you hear
when the water inches up your thighs?

glass
you, kind and plentiful limb.
a branch repeated throughout the white city.

share
legible numbers. marks, notches.
or a bell, yes. a bell.

play
hospital game, she says,
searching the city again.

tree
the bird looks for the mirror branch.
we have lost all sense of audience.



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