"The Watch"
Is like a
Castle concealing so many
Watchmakers
They walk
Up and downs the stairs, and shuttle
Between so many rooms
And murmur:
The time of Norway
Is lichen,
Of Caylen is
Forest,
And of Isreal
Is manna.
Beyond
All the meanings
The gear wheel is
Turning in the centre
Like the crystals of snows
Descending
In every silent speed
On the ocean
Like a boat in a port
Touching
The surface.
So the watchmakers
When working
In the cold solitary night
Out of the windows they see
A seagull, a heavy mist,
The snows falling
With the most exact
Perspective,
A silk of sound, stove fire
Ashes, a mirror
Polishing.
Outside the window
The horn of winter’s night
Is singing and reminds
All the watchmakers
Of their spirits
Locking
Over the sea
And falling
Like snows
Within every
Seconds.
Suddenly
The snows of spirits
Uplift to the stratosphere
They are like time being blowed
And scattered.
The watchmakers
Are waiting
With extremely silence
For someone’s
Response.