tomorrow, free at 2 *2/1/13

yes, oh yes...

tomorrow, free at two o'clock,

the minute hand will stare

up top, directly overhead 

at two numbers, side by side, 1 & 2,

exceptional close

and see, only for a short period

of that time,

the space vertically between them,

by looking directly up,

even though they stand united,

and proclaim “twelve”

in some rooster like announcement,

“twelve”……..(!),

possibly for anyone

who can lip-read a stare

off the blunt end of a stick.

Unique to that moment,

the hour hand,

of similar rotational orientation 

as the minute,

in that clockwise pursuit,

will partially concur,

that one of the numbers 

as seen overhead by the minute hand,

will also appear directly overhead

of the hour hand itself,

though not vertical,

but slightly to the right, a 1

while directly facing a 2,

that “one two” sensed again,

sparking a sense of either coincidence

or spontaneity shared,

and silently remark accordingly

in joining the chorus

of the minute hand's mute song.

And together, an intimacy,

often repeated

every twelve-hour segment,

though familiar over time,

still joyously shared

from one hand to the other.

But for those of us,

in potential audience of this,

between now, and any future now,

the time you are reading this now

and that then, that two o'clock special,

so much will have come and gone,

so much will have been expected

and either flowered or became dismal,

so much mind-written and mouth-said,

that I can heartily wait

for that next two o’clock special

to be then

and know reflectively from there,

from that as now,

what will become,

between the A.M. to the P.M.

or the P.M. to the A.M.

as this opportune journey of the next

clockwise cycle of time . . .