It's funny how the clock of memory can get unwound - or is it wound? While smell might have the strongest pull - it is images and words that most often do the pulling. The mind goes back. The memories emerge. 10. 9, 8 . . . 2 . . . Nov. Oct., Sept, . . . .Sunday, Saturday, Friday, . . . Tuesday . . .it is a countback that takes place in an instant; your mind does all that mechanical back turning. Why? We all know why, don't we?
Countdown
Synchronize the falling clocks
Wind the mind and check the locks
Pick-up sticks and building blocks
pyramid to perfect knowing
minus ten and time is growing
small at nine is cold and snowing
eight is wheels and seven rain
what equation can expalin
going backward in the brain.
---- Miller Williams
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