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Time And Time Again
31 Jan 2009, Comments: | Views: 1102 | | Category: Poems
Or listen to the clocktowers
of any old well-managed city


beating their gongs round the clock, each slightly
off the others’ time, deeper or lighter


in its bronze, beating out a different
sequence each half-hour, out of the accidents


of alloy, a maker’s shaking hand
in Switzerland, or the mutual distances


commemorating a donor’s whim,
the perennial feuds and seasonal alliance


of Hindu, Christian, and Muslim—
cut off sometimes by a change of wind,


a change of mind, or a siren
between the pieces of a backstreet quarrel


One day you look up and see one of them
eyeless, silent, a zigzag sky showing


through the knocked-out clockwork, after a riot,
a peace-march time bomb, or a precise act


Of nature in a night of lightnings.

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