Another 10-minute poem published~

Louis Faber does it again. He says he doesn’t edit, and he doesn’t need to. For him, editing is simply selecting which pieces work and which don’t. This is probably the fifth 10-minute Saturday writing group poem that he has had accepted for publication, and it’s one he wrote almost two years ago, inspired by the image of steampunk clockwork.

It’s in EKL Review. Their tagline is “imagining against the grain” - our kind of folks!

Clockwork

Deep within the cosmic core 

the celestial horologist tinkers, 

bending time into wormholes 

as the stars stare, muted. 

We are oblivious, strain to see 

our place amid endless expansion. 

We accelerate blindly, unknown, 

unknowing where we are, 

where is could be at this 

moment, at any moment, 

caught up in the temporal tide, 

a never yielding river 

in which we inevitably drown. 

We swim against time’s tide, 

a futile effort self-justified 

by our need for meaning, 

for permanence unachievable, 

for time is the heart of our universe, 

inexorably pumping, 

pumping, 

pumping 

and we mere cells, born, 

dying, 

replaced 

and all from a bang 

that tore the clocks asunder.

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