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Morning Sun, Edward Hopper, 1952
‘Morning Sun’ by Edward Hopper, 1952. Photo credit: Edward Hopper / Wikimedia

A look inside of time

03:00
Up again too soon `
Minutes click by like clay beads
on a raveled thread 

05:00
Dreamscape   A single scull
splits the glass-smooth stream
its wake a healing scar

08:00
Aflutter
in the specimen case
Impaled on the arrow of time

12:00
Noon lull   Breeze takes a break
Even shadows rest from sun-sped
shrink and stretch

14:00
Juice of two lemons
Sugar enough to quell pucker
Water to taste

16:30
Forget-me-not,
sighs the twice-cut flower
dumb to how much love it takes

19:00
The benediction
of horizontal light:
Sunset’s burnished hour

23:59
Your slow motion wink
mocks the ever-swelling dark —
Goodnight waning moon

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Gerald Jonas is a senior editor at WhoWhatWhy and a writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, as well as other journals large and small.  

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    Gerald Jonas is a senior editor at WhoWhatWhy and a writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, as well as other journals large and small.

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