We speak often
of dawn, of dusk,
of the wee small hours,
of midnight.
Here is a call out
for 1:47 PM, the afternoon
in progress, hours before
work ends, school almost over,
the heat of the day even in winter;
one for 8:13 AM, out the door
and into the completed light of morning,
transition over, no question about
what the day will bring because it’s come;
one for 9:00 PM on the nose, still early evening
for some but for some it’s bedtime,
the hour of demarcation between
the night owl and the church mouse.
And a special nod of the head
to coming home to 00:00 flashing
on the stove clock,
cable box, microwave.
What time is it, anyway,
when you are in the middle
of resetting the clocks after the power’s
come back on?
Did you set them all ahead a few minutes
so you’ll never be late again?
Did you set them all to the same time,
accounting for the few seconds it takes
to walk from one to the other?
You use your watch, your phone, your computer
to be sure you did it right. Something is always off
by a minute. Do you say then, “close enough?”
and feel a bit reckless?
Is this
your
revolution?
Dark Matter 
December 11th, 2009 at 8:28 am
you have understood the day.
you have defined the day.
you have named me church mouse .
December 11th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Hello, fellow poet. I am essentially a ‘rhyming’ poet but I appreciate all forms of poetry and your ‘free verse’ poem is excellent,in flow, meter and construction. I enjoyed reading it. This is my first comment on someone else’s blog. I have opened a new blog here in this community and wish to seek out and read other poets’ work. Presently (today) I have only one poem + image on my blog but I have written more than 1000 poems during the last ten years and published them elsewhere. Now I want to establish myself, alongside other poets and writers within WordPress community. It will be challenging, but I am up to the task.
Best wishes and thank you for sharing your poetry 🙂
December 11th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Thank you, and welcome to the site!
December 11th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Thanks again. I am honored to be welcomed here.