Bill Knott Time Poems
- 1. Tempestrousseau
The clock is dressed in drag, I mean it wears
space instead of its own proper aspect
but if it wore time, would it disappear
isn't visibility an effect
... - 2. An Instructor's Dream
Many decades after graduation
the students sneak back onto
the school-grounds at night
and within the pane-lit windows
... - 3. Fragments From The Beach
(Nonasyllabics)
In retrospect the tragic nature
of sea is a taste wept too daily,
... - 4. Picture
Meadow of matchsticks,
soon to be rekindled
by Spring the incendiary.
... - 5. To Ripley (alien 1-4)
Always your face like a space
(Destination: beautiful) ship
Empties its mote of closeup trace
Down screens that blink blank blip
... - 6. Stress Therapy
Time, time, time, time, the clock
vaccinates us.
and then even that lacks
prophylaxis.
... - 7. Compact Dusk
Here at the height of the day night change
The color of the sky is uncertain,
The sky depending in which direction
One's eye strains, each of its swatches a strange
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