Hourglass

hourglass idea spills—
  visual density slips again,
    quiet calligraphy a mirror-page layered identity
  breathing negative space as
  ephemeral carnation—
   introspective and slow,
  dense rotated mirror of
    sketched meaning in fragments dripping,
    fragments that drip and drift. carnations fold into a popular concept
  and back,
shivers and burns
  in contemplative resistance—
  resistance that remembers
  concept over aesthetics,
    over concept,
      over. the page is a battlefield of signs;
  letters—birds in clandestine flight—
every stroke a small insurrection
  against the imaginative cloud
  uncut by borders,
invisible bridges
  stretch, collapse, stretch. walk through the air
  as if through the air again,
cut a piece of the poem
  until the poem cuts back. alphabet,
  the art of echo
  that outlives the hourglass—
  hourglass that spills,
    that spills,
      that spills. invisible bridges
  stretch, collapse, stretch. walk through the air
  as if through the air again,
cut a piece of the poem
  until the poem cuts back. alphabet,
  the art of echo
  that outlives the hourglass—
  hourglass that spills,
    that spills,
      that spills. hourglass idea spills—
  visual density slips again,
    quiet calligraphy a mirror-page layered identity
  breathing negative space as
  ephemeral carnation—
   introspective and slow,
  dense rotated mirror of
    sketched meaning in fragments dripping,
    fragments that drip and drift. carnations fold into a popular concept
  and back,
shivers and burns
  in contemplative resistance—
  resistance that remembers
  concept over aesthetics,
    over concept,
      over.