The clock doesn’t have an amygdala
so it doesn’t worry, it tells
its own quick trickle-down story
of now and now and now until
neither yesterday nor tomorrow
is where it should be.
Welcome, traveler!
You might as well stay a while
and kneel to Happiness
and its hymns and its cross.
From The Game of Boxes (Graywolf Press, 2012). Copyright © 2012 Catherine Barnett. Used with the permission of the Permissions Company, LLC, on behalf of Graywolf Press.