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Flipped Hourglass

Trinkets, salt packet from road trip sixteen years ago
  Collected, cafes remembered, ripped open with age
   Spilt among treasure, a twig, tickets, torn butterfly
     Bits familiar, shrine in a tin, tired feather, belated
       Harmoniously decompose, shipwreck's chains  
         Filter their links, flakes floated, flipped coins
           Emboss truth funnelled through decades
            Grains falling,  fabled chamber drained
              Recollections creak rocking chair era
               Carpet of moths, floorboards erode
                 Sanctum split, heirlooms fracture
                  Hailed scriptures huddle in fog

                   Divided cortex gorge cool gap
                  Glide of pendulum grandfather 
                Silent rhythm discards old habits
             Distance in dust, leaf littered history
            Compiles mottos rotting ignominous
         With inter century bold blended injection
      Contemporary tips in, new version junction
    Mingling dissolves old into fresh vessel joined
  Relentless generations mark intended kamikaze
       Ebony ivory rivals reflect empathy kindered
           Measure of Yin Yang our future ligature





                             7th February 2022
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Date: 2/7/2022 1:35:00 PM
A lovely read. Enjoyed the imagery.
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Date: 2/6/2022 7:42:00 PM
Sigrid, Fine nostalgic bits from time, if a little corrupt. Makes me wonder how many times the hourglass was flipped before our collected final pall is dressed and labeled. -Richard
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