Afternoon Hiatus

Afternoon Hiatus Counting footsteps at dapper dawn’s increased insistence As flurries of minutes in perpetual movement binds hands To a spinning roulette of prioritized importance Motivating motives of revelations demand admittance And attention’s effervescent energy Like the ordered notes in a music box rebellion That winds down when solitary sol begins to slide Past the apex of day’s light that tumbles Toward the waiting, wandering, sea’s vertical vortex In long beams touching yawning midafternoon Begging the tattered taskmaster time Sit down! Be still! In china cups from time before Savor the pearls of tawny topaz perfume Carried from exotic mountain slopes Amber ambrosia steeped in afternoons long passed To pause Pushing back on the tempo of time’s insistent intervals - To disconnect in soaring sighs Of an afternoon holiday in hiatus. 1-29-21 Contest: Hiatus Sponsor Chantelle Anne Cooke