Friday, April 25, 2008

Bell Defined (for Sean and all of us): 4/25/2008


Bell. Defined.

that dark thing
sometimes golden
sometimes bright
heavy
round

breakable

that dark thing
sometimes shining
sometimes waiting
sometimes broken and rusted

that heavy something
that does it's only job
regularly
brutally clear

that invention
simple instrument
breakable
sometimes bronze
heavy like morning
jarring like wake up

that heavy open metal

that furnace fused curve
thick skirt to hide
under
that shape of birthing
as iron as chains

that heavy open metal

that alarm
that sound
that sound

that again
again
again

that thing

that deep and elevated symbol
in the middle of the town square

that
that reminds the people

what they know

time to
get up
up
get up
again

brutally clear job of waking

bell
that thing that reminds us

what time it is.


-alexis pauline gumbs
April 25th, 2008

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