“Ruminations of a Pocket Watch” was named a prize-winner in the poetry contest held for Issue 50, “Titanic” (Final Issue), of the award-winning Sensations Magazine based in New Jersey. The full list of winners can be seen by visiting the official website of Sensations Magazine or clicking on the below link:
http://www.freewebs.com/centclub/acceptedsubmissions.htm
Ruminations of a Pocket Watch
Commencing at 2.20am
on the 15th April 1912,
it took a ticking automaton
all of fifteen minutes
to transcribe a quaky outpouring of grief
that compressed or prolonged a sinking
otherwise mediated
by mathematical and physical laws;
it took all of fifteen minutes
for its battery-heart and its oscillation-pulse
to be overcome
by a
a saline taste,
a deadly languor,
a swift-winged inertia,
and then a sinking feeling in the gut;
it took all of fifteen minutes
to mechanically define
the incongruity of all Life
as an abyssal zone where Time
can be uncannily and noticeably absent,
and concurrently the only thing left.
