Chris Hardy

 

 

BLOOD COUNT

 

 

I won’t have a chiming clock

in my home

to stop me waking or

wake me when

I don’t want to know.

 

Instead I use a

silent metronome

that I can disregard

or when I choose to

check to see

 

my numbers being

counted out

in a blood-red monochrome

glow,

until the fuses blow.

 

 

 

copyright © Chris Hardy

2009