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Clockmaker
By Michael Lee Johnson
Solo, I am clockmaker
born September 22nd,
a Virgo/Libra mix insane,
look at my moving parts, apart yet together,
holes in air, artistic perfection,
mechanical misfits everywhere,
life is a brass lever, a wordsmith, an artist at his craft.
Clockmaker, poet tease, and squeeze tweezers.
I am a life looking through microscope,
screenshots, snapshot tools,
mainsprings, swing pendulum, endless hours,
then again, ears open tick then tock.
Over humor and the last brass bend,
when I hear a hair move its breath,
I know I am the clock waiter,
the clockmaker listensa
tick, then tock.
Author bio: Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada during the
Vietnam era. He is a Canadian and USA citizen. Today he is a poet,
freelance writer, amateur photographer, small business owner in Itasca,
Illinois. He has been published in more than 850 small press magazines
in 27 countries, and he edits 10 poetry sites. The author's website is
http://poetryman.mysite.com/. Michael is the author of The Lost
American: From Exile to Freedom, several chapbooks of poetry,
including From Which Place the Morning Rises and Challenge of Night
and Day, and Chicago Poems. He also has over 77 poetry videos on
YouTube as of
2015: https://www.youtube.com/user/poetrymanusa/videos