Breaking Up
for Laura Morton
Rain across Texas today didn't help
The sky so close to the mesquite earth
Weeping
Far as the eye can see,
Through towns like Marble Falls
Luckenback
& Fredericksburg.
Rain across the entire LBJ spread,
Muddy ran the Pedernales River,
The sun a distant memory.
I tried different tricks
To push her out of my mind,
"Get Present,"
"She's wound too tight,"
"Never would have worked"--
All failing equally.
-Austin TX, 2008
Turn horizontal time inside-out & linear extension becomes deeply vertical; the counting of sun-orbits [weeks, months, years etc] morphs into the sun itself...