Timepiece
I attenuate you
I absorb you
I scatter you
Put you under
Pressure, I know
I’ve been told
I have issues
Drawing boundaries
And also
I wonder what
Is your potential
And also
I want to reduce
These polarities
Meet you
In the wet mist
Of morning
Just like the melting
Edge of the evening
So that the speed
Of sound proceeds
Along my spherical
Entreaties
-and please
A brief biography:
A spinning satellite
Winked the mountain
Quartz awake so
None of us slept
A wink that week
An a-index and an
Average of eights
The grates of an
Indigo halo happened
While the hour
Wilted, late
I absorb you
I scatter you
Put you under
Pressure, I know
I’ve been told
I have issues
Drawing boundaries
And also
I wonder what
Is your potential
And also
I want to reduce
These polarities
Meet you
In the wet mist
Of morning
Just like the melting
Edge of the evening
So that the speed
Of sound proceeds
Along my spherical
Entreaties
-and please
A brief biography:
A spinning satellite
Winked the mountain
Quartz awake so
None of us slept
A wink that week
An a-index and an
Average of eights
The grates of an
Indigo halo happened
While the hour
Wilted, late
L. Noelle McLaughlin was the Hortus Arboretum and Botanical Gardens resident writer for 2020. Her work has appeared in Alchemy Magazine, Advaitam Speaks Literary, Thrice Fiction, The Stone Canoe Journal and elsewhere. lnoellemclaughlin.com
