A poet writes in time---
her time, our time
of love and death
of kittens and of cats.

A poet writes in time
in measured lines and
metered phrases
beating time,. making time

A poet in time writes
when life and love
overcomes ego
and self-consciousness

when the poet lies
exposed to the reality
of change, decay, and death
In such a time the poet writes

In time a poet lives
poem time, real time
alive to the changes and chances
of a weary world.

in tune with sea and sky
and land, alive to the
pain of those around-
In time the poet lives.

In time a poet dies
wearied by life lived
without rest or deceit
soul flayed and

spilled upon a rock feeding
the ravens of the gods
for the crime of bringing
insight to the people of earth

in a poem recalled
or a remembered line
Thru time the poet will live.