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                          With a Theme of Time 

"the earth circled, spun, tilted into the equinox"

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In the Museum of Clocks
by Karen Marker

On the way to Lisbon the plane stops
in Munich. It’s a layover with enough
time to visit the Museum of Clocks.
 
Time to think about how time traveled
with us on a cross Atlantic flight,
the first flight since Covid
back to Europe into the sunset
 
through the night. It’s now a new day.
In German the board blinks the precise
time of arrivals, departures.   I set
my watch forward nine hours.
 
There’s a pendulum in the Clock
Museum swinging its arms.
The hourglass shows sand
falls, a moment of time slip away.
 
With the wait it adds up –
eighteen hours total travel time,
less than that passed in labor.
Already my friend’s grandbaby
has taken her first breaths,
 
the earth circled, spun, tilted
into the equinox. There’s a meditation
room beside the Museum of Clocks.
 
Prayer books in Arabic, Hindi, Hebrew,
Sanskrit’s tiny script.  All of them
may stop time, give us time outside of time
 
time to breathe, be grateful we made it.

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​​Karen Marker’s poetry has won awards through the Keats Soul-Making Literary Competition and the Ina Coolbrith Circle. She has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including The MacGuffin, The Monterey Poetry Review, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Slant Poetry and World Peace. You can find out more about Karen’s writing and her first book Beneath the Blue Umbrella at:
https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/beneath-the-blue-umbrella-by-karen-marker/

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