Halves of a Nine
by Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen — Read all 1,670 poems by Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
Saturday, September 10, 2005
I’ve been thinking about Time, again,
and, its assignation. I see Time as the sum
of halves of a nine. A five, added to a four,
equals nine.
Time, in my household runs like that premise.
Most of the time, I prefer it that way.
There is no clear definition of the correct
perceivability of a half. I think
halves can be skewed, arranged, by
me and you, into relativity by our lives.
It’s said a half is fifty percent of the whole,
but, I don’t think so, halves are weighed
in terms of Time. Yeah, terms of Time.
There must be words to express the halves
of Time’s passage.
Fleeting, flashing, dragging, lacking, yes,
all apply, yet, not in essence.
I think I’ll add a term or two.
I see Time as misbalanced, paralleled
and produced. I see chaos, and joy, and
births of new eternities. I see Time
as a split infinity, which gathers matter
deliciously into plots and paths and rhymes
and wines of experience. After all, experience
is, in other-how realities, imagination. And,
vice versa.
So, thoughts of Big Bangs and alien
forms are all and nothing in Time’s unraveling.
It’s the cognizance of self
which is the driving force of Time
in our passing pronoun-ed lives.
I have to find a way to grip Time's nines,
these halves are killing me…
Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
© Copyright 9/9/05
I found out my old psychiatrist I thought retired -has no old telephone number-had transformed into a neurological-forensic-crime osteopathic consultant, and sent him (after decades) a letter with my equation generated egg graph.
Got some financial aid this year and will be starting cal state la as a masters student in Philosophy-classes start the 22nd.
Your friend
Marvin
A poetic-philosophic symbolistical "Halves of a Nine"...
"Halves of a Nine" has complied with its poetic tasks and
delivered a mind's striking composition.
I salute You, Poet!
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
Sandie May Angel a.k.a. Sandie Angel :o)
Take care,
Sherry