Goya's 'drowning dog'. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Goya's dog appeared in Brittle Star: Issue 46. 

BRITTLE STAR

mean time

from screaming flocks   

and waves that suck at shingle

from clouds that blur the sky

and the ocean swell of cars

roiling on the road

 

to fingers turning a watch’s crown

fretting the quick with mainsprings

winding wheels and regulators

clocking the moment that was 

the future long past

 

across the datelines a love 

is lost in alien sleep unaware 

you’ve adjusted to the time

you stand alone with the sea

 

 

mean time appeared in Consilience: Issue 10.

CONSILIENCE

 

 

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