time washes by here
and spinning
from viscous centuries
to brisk liquid millennia
ashes and crashes
from bone to sawdust
to raw dust
deep freeze
from paralysis
petrification
violently silently
rushes and drift
leak empty midnight
on five o’clock shadows
and five minute moments
out, out brief candle
to flickering flame
and a second of dream
for a third of the blame
for time missed
and time mist
funereal guilt
a wake
and awaken
arise