gray time

gray time

it’s gray
as if the lightest fog in front
so
light’s ironic
without evidence
but
knowing that it’s time

Earth knows
while
it’s whole around the sun
fractured
since making and
in time
shall have the splinters going through
the core
and
all of us
gray like these days
shall hopefully have left
gone
to
another world that has
tectonically
so far to go

c l couch

photo by NASA Hubble Space Telescope on Unsplash


gray time

it’s late
it’s fall
winter’s rise
a month away

the bears
have eaten salmon

I saw the camera’s highlights
of
bear
red flesh
and moving stream
taking
what is red
away

so now
the bears are done
(the
salmon gone)
and time for the
sleep
of a season
in the impulse of the bear

and the gray comes
earlier
should clouds
impede
a brilliance for a sunset

either way
and then
is
black-paned night
maybe
rest

regardless
after
hours
the next
the new day

c l couch


photo by Val Vesa on Unsplash 
Sunset in Cluj, Romania