as hesitant buds in spring
burst suddenly into rapture
as young children
clouded by the clock's confusion
learn slowly how to separate
the hours and minutes
as climbers gather
into a still centre
into diamond-hard stasis
before that final fluid move
as sentinel herons
in gnomic contemplation guard
the ever changing stream
then flap stiffly off
your thoughts - like drifts of kelp
washed up on the strandline
then rescued by incoming tide -
float free
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