What Time is it Where You Live ?

by Sotère Torregian

What Time is it Where You Live ?
     from “Tempus Fujitsu”
          for Emily Sanagorsky

What time is it now
where you live
And I try
to rise to
my life’s work yet b bumbled in sleep
And you dream of fishing    perhaps    and mimosas
for the holiday
with your mate
( I mate -less and yet    plethorous
in herding    dreams )
as I reach
for my books    as guardsmen of my realm    of    La Sagesse
poésie            Vision-quest

And you gaze in the morning at the bluest sky

Just waking in bare-feet that need swarming
I breathe
a bit of fire for them
out of my creative    verve
Which reaches out to encompass    the Four Corners of
the West    where you prospect in your science

of which I remain an ignoramus
but a    knower loving
that which you are and strive to enfold

Sotère Torregian
December 18, 2021