The Greeks measured Earth by its shadow on the moon. Thoreau said, Time is a stream I go fishing in. Ford said, History is the bunk. Sumerian writing, done on clay tablets, shows about 2000 pictographic signs. The moon is a bad woman because she is very romantic. We all know the trouble romance can get you in. I am romantic tonight, amorous with the moon. O how many leaves lay scattered? I guess thousands, and I have a study that agrees with me. When you pay for a study, you get what you want. Therefore, all studies are romantic and have a dark side like the moon. Theodora, the Byzantine empress, died in 548, one of a kind. Her death was a big relief to some of her subjects. Five years later disastrous earthquakes shook the entire world. The house I live in was built much later. I leave the actual count to you. The first water-driven mechanical clock was constructed in Peking in 1090, the wrist watch around the turn of the Twentieth century. I’ve got a digital that I can read in the dark.
I can also read the chained and sailing moon from here. Its glyphs of pox say the odds are against us.
“Time Waits for Nobody” image by Flickr user Jose Manuel Rios Valiente
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E.M. Schorb’s latest prose poem collection is Last Exit to East Hampton. His Murderer’s Day was awarded the Verna Emery Poetry Prize and published by Purdue University Press. Another collection, Time and Fevers received the Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Award for Poetry and also an Eric Hoffer Award. Most recently, Words in Passing was published by The New Formalist Press. Schorb’s novel, Paradise Square, received the Grand Prize for Fiction from the International eBook Award Foundation at the Frankfurt Book Fair and A Portable Chaos was the First Prize Winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction.