Day 292 of 2025
“Clockwork Healing in Copper Light”
Recuperation
The gears have opinions about rest.
They say: even stopping is a kind of turning.
They say: the body is not a machine,
then correct themselves — the body
is exactly a machine, but one
that heals by doing nothing well.
Sunday invented the concept
of planned obsolescence in reverse:
everything that broke this week
reassembles if you leave it alone
on a table in good light.
I have been leaving myself alone
on a table in good light.
The plates are clean.
The evening is arriving on schedule.
Somewhere a spring uncoils
and calls it forgiveness.