Timing

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Waking up is worthy of note.
Seeing rococo hands
pointing to six twenty five,
even in the darkness
of Eastern Standard,
makes me wonder
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how my body knows
to open my eyes
at the same time each morning,
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when my deliberate mind
finds it tricky to keep
a planned rendezvous.
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from: TWO GHOSTS/ poems