Timekeeper

When you ask me if I have a minute
I don’t tell you that all minutes are too slippery to hold,
I say sure, no problem, have twenty, an hour,
say I can’t think of any life purpose more fulfilling than giving you my
minutes

Have the quickstep, swinging, jiving ones
that race the music, that outpace the beat,
their feet spinning them through their sixties like life ends
when the dancing does

Have the decade seconds of my melancholy, grief,
that stretch out my tattered heart,
that pull the pearl strings of my dreams
Stretch them further if my limbo is of use to you

Have the measured calmness of my gentle peace
and meet me in its steady rhythm
Have me find you in a heartbeat, ear to chest,
in in-breath, in out-breath, in the quiet tick-tock clock

of our two bodies
stilled to almost timelessness

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Nicola Currie

NICOLA CURRIE is a multi-genre writer and poet from Cambridge, England. She writes fiction and poetry for both children and adults and her work can be found in various anthologies. Her poetry has been published in magazines such as Mslexia, Sarasvati and Sylvia. She has also completed her first children’s novel, which was longlisted for the Bath Children’s Novel Award. Her fantasy novella, The Cloak of Kings, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her first sci-fi dark fantasy novel for adults, Those of the Light, was published in September 2021.

Website: https://writeitandweep.home.blog/

Twitter: @Speculative_Nic and @nicbic1114 (for children’s fiction)

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Latest posts by Nicola Currie (see all)

• Last Dance of the Butterflies - 9th September 2022
• Timekeeper - 14th February 2021