flowers don’t open to the clock
but to the sunshine spontaneous—
for modern humans that manner
of instinct is now extraneous
—Terri Guillemets
time
It’s now
Don’t let the past steal your present.
—Terri Guillemets
Tireless
Does time ever get
so old it aches?
Doesn’t it ever want
to take a break?
—Terri Guillemets
Tempus nunquam dormit
Three A.M. is when
all the quiet things
become loud —
the drip in the sink,
that clock on the wall,
our hearts, our minds.
—Terri Guillemets
History & destiny
The past can’t see you, but the future is listening.
—Terri Guillemets
Falling up
Autumn is springtime in reverse.
—Terri Guillemets
Brimming
Time pours his guests a cup of tea but the party is over before we know it.
—Terri Guillemets
Notoolong
We are only but guests at Time’s tea party.
—Terri Guillemets
Sepulturæ
Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time.
—Terri Guillemets
“Time! where didst thou those years inter
Which I have seene decease?” —Wm. Habington