January 2025
Author's Note: This is the last poem in Gravity: New & Selected Poems, the second edition of which is forthcoming from Moon Tide Press in 2025. To say that I am feeling this more intensely now than I did when the poem was written would be quite the understatement.
Once, Time
Once, time trickled slowly
like sap in winter,
a Russian novel’s trudge
through snow. Time enough
to break the plate,
retrieve the pieces,
break the bone and set
it once again in place.
Now, I fear what cracks
will not be mended.
I walk carefully. Everywhere
the path is slick and fast.
From Gravity: New & Selected Poems
©2025 Donna Hilbert
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