Delights Against Time

12:30

Curtain call, closing toll

Through-running river,

Cooling, soothing morning mildew

Grey new hue

2:02 and blacker-blue

Shadow of night blanketing all-

on one half of Earth’s tilting curves,

“Run from the sun like Dracula,”

Deserved comatose insomniac;

Pretty pre-dawn

Beautiful obscured, buried alive all-along,

Daytime action blurring— 

Dreaming, sleepwalking,

alert without lust

Solar husk, tin rust

“All in all it’s just another brick in the wall

Brightest star is the fastest,

slickest serpent to fall

Destitute, disturbia miscalculating Apollo fireball

Suburban oddball delights;

Fading gifted disease of the mind,

Faltering dull dementia, stalling—

Peter Pan playing against time,

A dozen in a dime