Falling back

Light Verse

It's just five, but it's light like six.
It's lighter than we think.
Mind and day are out of sync.
The dog is restless.
The dog's owner is sleeping and dreaming of Elvis.
The treetops should be dark purple,
but they're pink.

Here and now. Here and now.
The sun shakes off an hour.
The sun assumes its pre-calendrical power.
(It is though, only what we make it seem.)
Now in the dog owner's dream,
the dog replaces Elvis and grows bigger
than that big tower

in Singapore, and keeps on growing until
he arrives at a size
which only the planets can empathize.
He sprints down the ecliptic's plane,
chased by his owner Jane
(that's not her real name) who yells at him
to come back and synchronize.

Vijay Seshadri,
author of The Long Meadow