the rickety structure of time (for djk) it creaks and it groans meanders and moans and sometimes will turn on a dime antique chronograph still evoking a laugh the rickety structure of time who designed it you wonder it must be a blunder some sort of ironical crime part devil, part saint but perfect it ain’t the rickety structure of time you move through it slowly both highly and lowly in moments absurd and sublime only forward, not back in through crevice and crack in the rickety structure of time you may travel the world different flags are unfurled changing scenery, season and clime but what shall remain of the loss or the gain the rickety structure of time both window and wall a whole lifetime tall this mountain you’re trying to climb a stairway to Heaven this path you are given the rickety structure of time 'til last grandly staged well-seasoned and aged parsley sage, rosemary and thyme the poet: he sings of the fullness it brings the rickety structure of time rjh Illustration: MC Escher, 'Relativity' (1953)
