POETRY

Reface

A blackout poem

Image by Jessica Lee McMillan. Blackout poem from pg. 9 of Harold. C. Kelly’s A Practical Course in Horology, 1944 and in response to Vancouver clockmaker eyes retirement as the clock counts down on daylight saving time by Gian-Paolo Mendoza.

unquestionably, we marvelled
at mechanical arts:
the accuracy of clockmaker
balancing
wheels and gears in dark casings
fitting
our ritual with crystal timing