Tagged: time travel
it takes skills to pick
it takes skills to pick
the pockets of time – you place half
a roll of quarters
on the old time machine, claiming
to have broken the high score
.
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triggered for dreaming,
only in the present
we check our watches
we check our watches
quickly and slowly, as if
we were astronauts
beyond escape velocity,
pulling a fast one on time
.
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we are more fragile
we are more fragile
than we let on, granting
each other with an
extra day every so often
for a glimpse into the future
.
20160229:0800
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to remember this
to remember this
moment takes time
lifting a generous
corner of the day,
that hour, a full
minute –
some organs
may tremble
during transportation
.
20150914:0837
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my body is rest-
my body is rest-
less at two a.m., while my
brain is restless at
three – both statements are true, and
neither one allows for sleep
.
20150308:0308
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in the next thirty-
in the next thirty-
one minutes, i will have
secured my knots and
harness and be ready to
rappel into that lost
hour – meet me there,
where anything
would have been
possible
.
20150308:0138
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the last time i lost
the last time i lost
an hour or two, my heart
soaked in the growing
distance. every time we do
this, we are fooling ourselves
.
20150308:0059
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moving across time
moving across time
zones or daylight saving, i
fumble the hour,
hands not quite comfortable
with the shape of it, heart scraped
.
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