I am still on clock time
I am still on clock time
not digital time
the clock hands return
again and again
to their folded hands prayers
and God is in the world of clocks
the maker
the fixer
the eternal spring
that bounces back
and shields the many rocks of alarm
oh but digital time
the great expanse of the universe
the never returning to the point of origin
digital time that accumulates without God
just a system amok
in the dark night of our souls
is the multiverse
asymmetrical
the leap of time
of consciousness
into oblivion
entropy
forever
expanding
but once
why
I hold onto my clock
a teddy bear
a pillow
a thing so human
and necessary
to make sense of the world
a clock
and the God who made it
Dan Cuddy is currently an editor of the Loch Raven Review. In the past he was a contributing editor of the Maryland Poetry Review and Lite: Baltimore’s Literary Newspaper. He has had a book of poetry published, Handprint on the Window in 2003. Recently he has had poems published in Madness Muse Press, Horror Sleaze Trash, the Rats’s Ass Review, Roanoke Review, , Synchronized Chaos, Fixator Press, Beatnik Cowboy, Gargoyle, The Chamber Magazine and Witcraft.
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