Daylight Savings

Poetry

Brian Baker
The Lark
Nov 15, 2022

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Barren Branches by Brian Baker (DALLE-2)

November liquidates
diminishing returns,
its savings spent
by a squandering summer.

Elastic years have been
stretched and strained,
squeezed like tantalizing fruit
tempting us to believe
we’ve seized more time.

But behind barren trees,
vestiges of light shimmer through
branches that cast shifting shadows on our walls
like a sundial gnomon slicing up borrowed time,
cutting short our precious golden hours.

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Brian Baker
The Lark

New writer on Medium. I work in the IT health field. I hope to integrate my love of writing with my fascination with science and art.