Four Definitions For the Use of Time by Carolyn Moore

Four Definitions For the Use of Time

by Carolyn Moore

published in Cider Press Review

1

Your book club neighbor chats across the fence

of marginalia you’d feel rude to halt.

You’re late for the doctor’s bad news redefining

late as good. (Here, time as minutes saved

before the clock’s face and hands tic with fear.)

2

Our dead forget all of their favorite colors

but not how we felt when our red wine stained

their table’s open grain. (Time as rebuke,

selective as trout hungry for nymphs,

a...