Time: Textures

The average lifespan  
   is four thousand weeks, give or take.

What should we do
       with our allotment?

In this economy of days, 
   a work week is held in contrast

to paid time off or vacations.
        Doing nothing is still 

a form of doing and there are many fine
    forms of doing nothing— sitting

in a cathedral built of slow 
        mornings, sleeping while rain

divides into currencies you'll  
     eventually give up counting. 

The days wrap around you sometimes 
        like a thin clinical gown,

neither cloth nor paper. 
     You can wear it to open in front 

or in the back. Either way, you are 
        easier to access. Forget your bad 

hip, your bum shoulder. They're mere 
     distractions when you want to take 

time peeling an orange, releasing its scent
        as you pull pith away from flesh.