TIME INDIVISIBLE

Break time into its indivisible pieces

And throw them loose into a drawer

Like photographs mixed up and out of order,

Or shuffle them like a deck of cards

And throw them on the floor in a game of 52-pickup,

Or scramble them like letters of the alphabet

And pick them out from a pile of upside down tiles.

Reassemble them using clockwork unwound,

Without an arrow’s direction, without a straight-line flow;

Create other patterns or not; design an image with

Bits unrelated, side-by-side, time without meaning,

Time with accidental designs among the haphazard array,and

No more than a flattened globe of

Scattered bits tossed out upon a sea of space,

At the mercy of current, wind, storm and water becalmed,

The imagination creates an assembly

With senses dulled or nonexistent;

Flights of fancy built into new mythic forms
As the search for a line or an image 
without any tense but the eternal present,

Exhausts all possibilities.

   

© cmheuer, 2013