The Invention of Time

A Poem written, lost, and found again, seemed to belong to these works which I'd done during the spring & summer of 2015:

A Feather on the Breath

Time, discovered, devised

To understand the circle of day and night

The hours

The motions

The minutes

We created
watching the movements
of seasons
of stars, of planets
time to reap, time to sow

To fit our life, our time

Creating gods in our image

And his time in ours

Time

Is not hours, is not minutes, days, weeks years

It steps far beyond our meager span

God we found immeasurable

But still he is ours

Time we name it

Expands far beyond

God

Far beyond where our mortal selves

Can fit

To have that

Knowledge

For a minute or 144 hours
24 of rest

The mind lingers in wonder

or runs in fear

Is to have eternity

In the palm of the hand

In the breath of a moment

In the

Blink

Of

An eye

April 2016 - July 2017

Work 2:  Seeking the Red Dwarf

Sketch:  Blue Tape blocking for two paintings above Spring 2015