AWOL Week #10 Responses – Time
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This week’s topic was ’Time’. And to help you find your words, I’ve attached a YouTube link,
again. It’s a clip from a film by the artist/composer Christian Marclay, who put the film together
by taking pieces from hundreds of feature films, every one of which had a clock, watch or reference
to time in it. Amazingly, the film he made is in real time, in other words, it lasts 24 hours,
so if you began watching it say at midnight, all the timepieces in the film would be correct.
This clip starts at about 5.40, as you’ll see, and the only link between the clips is the time of day:
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AWOL Week #10 Responses:
81 Years Old by Jodi Glass
81 Years Old
Nearly a century on, the scars still exist, metal mixes with mood
but the discoloured blue metal, draws the eye
the wood caved under 50mph winds
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Anderson shelters that protected 81 years ago, are concrete levelled sheds
protecting what is somewhat precious under lock and key
wooden sheds with water proof lids, couldn’t compare.
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What was meant to be temporary, are reused, refusing to bow to the winds
not all that is new will, will win out. Strength can.
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Keep calm and carry on,
there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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Jodi Glass
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Waiting…. by Kathy Low
Waiting….
What are you waiting for he said
I won’t be long she said
(standing, near the tree, waiting.
well, so what?
It doesn’t mean anything.
Anyone can stand near a tree)
Do you want to wait with me?
Maybe. I’ll wait a while and think about it.
There’s not much to see is there
just the road and an empty car park.
There’s not much cars eh?
What are we waiting for?
Who?..
What’s in the bag?
Look. I have potatoes and a clock.
I see.
Have you wound the clock?
It’s got an alarm, but I don’t need that.
The second hand seems to be moving quite slowly.
I know.
Have you been waiting long?
I have always been waiting.
….always waiting for something, some revelation.
Do you know what I mean?
Yes.
No! You don’t.
Is this a bus route?
The last bus didn’t stop. That was 19 35
Last night?
No.
The bus service is not good
There’ll be one along in a minute.
I’m tired.
I’ll sit on this rock,
I like the rock, it’s like home to me.
What?…..oh…..wait.
Look, I’m not waiting any longer.
I’ll leave you here.
That’s fine. please yourself. I don’t care. it’s nearly time. do what you like!
I’m waiting.
OK. goodbye.
Goodbye,
and anyway,
…..it’s too late now…..
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Kathy Low
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Deniable Fiction by Peter Marshall
Deniable Fiction
‘I know nothing of days of the week’ Pip
‘and nothing of weeks of the year’ Dickens penned.
Gives time-cycled few a hint and a tip
that he in aberrant way could life bend.
We use deniable fiction to tell
other kinsfolk we exist and go back.
Sometimes we live through periods of hell,
try next time round to take different tack.
True love lives once, though our feelings so deep,
each life we strive for perfection of bliss;
know in the long run no joy can we keep
and must start again towards that first kiss.
So few as we are, thrown back and reborn,
repeat life, loss of memory we scorn.
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‘The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August’,
enjoyable book gives the whole game away.
Even when told beyond doubt what she must,
far from code of conduct author did stray.
‘Making History’ retains some mystique
as Fry this time chose to work and display
and be quite diverse and rather unique
using a long spoon to taste of life’s fray.
Of me: well, my darling still I’ve not told,
chocolates and smiles upon her I heap.
It’s kinder to make sure facts to withhold,
my life’s repetition would have her weep.
A bunch of numbers I’ve long made recall,
so July’s lottery, I’ll win it all.
2020 05 27 Peter Marshall
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Distillation of a Mantra by V. Rivers
Distillation of a Mantra
I refuse to see welcome as threat, because of the harm in the past
I refuse to see welcome as threat, because of the harm in the past
I refuse to see welcome as threat, because of the harm in the past
I refuse to see welcome as threat, because of the harm in the past
I refuse to see welcome as threat, because of the harm in the past
I refuse to see welcome as threat, because of the harm in the past
I refuse to see welcome as threat, because of the harm in the past
I refuse to see welcome as threat, because of the harm in the past
I refuse to see welcome as threat, because of the harm in the past
I refuse to see welcome as threat, because of the harm in the past
I refuse the past
I see harm
I see threat
I welcome the past
I see the harm in the past
I refuse the harm in the past
I see welcome in the past
I refuse harm
I see welcome
I see
I welcome.
V. Rivers
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Time – Dandelion Clocks
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