Time as Black Liquid Flow

(To Margaret)

Time as black liquid flow

Will soak our windows blind

And coat this room

A private night

For two

Eternal time

Morning will

Remove her cloak

And lay our vision bare

She’ll seep white through cauter cracks

And cast her public stare

Night to day

And day to night

Plans worn fray will bear a seed

A nocturnal blossom will yawn to light

Or shrivel a morning weed

Copyright Eric Wasiolek Grinnell 1978