The Time Signature of Night: Poems

The Time Signature of Night is the second volume of poetry of a companion set. The first volume is titled Aquifers of Love. The poems in both books reflect the themes of the titles.

“The Time Signature of Night” draws attention to the music that exists everywhere: the obvious music, such as birdsong and insect and animal sounds, but also the quieter music that is drowned out by our cerebral-heavy world. Dorothy Maclean of Findhorn wrote that every plant has a deva that sings it into being. Johannes Kepler wrote of the music of the spheres. We are living in a time of cosmic awakening when we can each finally hear the song of our soul. Click image for larger version.

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Table of Contents

The Time Signature of Night
Joey
Dreams
The Scrooge Epiphany Mechanism
Inanimate Things
Atoms Hold the Water of Love
I Know There Is a God
Connect the Dots
Digging
Can Prayers Gnaw Through Ropes?
Arc a Types
To Me, When I Was Twenty
Stillness
Suffocation
Companeeeee!
I Wake Up Pleading
I Want to Be
At Dawn, the Sun
The Sun Has No Judgment
The Rat
Slaughterhouse Pigs
The Red Light
The Death of Ladybugs
My Cat Scries
Imploring Paws
My Sweet Girl
Wildlife
Sun Finches
Doe by the On-Ramp
Jean’s Farm
The Stump
The Last Twig
The Place of Sleep
One Huge Being
A Gathering Place
Along the Path
Gnawing
Seeking the Right Drill Bit
A Lifetime
The Other Side of Perception
The Good Ship Earth
Among the Rest
The Sunny Morning
The Cavalry of Spring
Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers
The Unintended Psychological Underpinnings of a Hershey Bar
My Unloving Nose
Hanging Out with Jesus
When I See My Mom Again
In the Middle of the Night
Love Is Weird
A Birthday Poem for My Brother
Masque
Family
True Story
The Captivity of Retail
In the Mall
The Hangover
Process It, Don’t Bury It
The Depot
Forgiveness Practice
Insulted
The Cleric
Back to Basics
Hope
Hopeless
Extraordinary
Rewind
3 A.M.
Tsunami
Message
Discovery
Destination
Oblivion’s Meadow
The Cloud People
Five Sunflowers
Polar Clouds
Maples
Shaving
Charlotte’s Cousin
The Rodents of Winter
How Woman and Dog Become Like an Old Couple
Indi Gets Her Angel Wings
Indi’s Dryer Lint
Dog Hair
The Mama Bear Gland
Elegy
A Feeling of Value
Windows
Her Sister’s Blue Eye
The Layers of Love
Petals
What If the Sparrows Were Gone?
Who Will Feed Them?
A Fly
Departed Dove
Sorrow
Not Meant to Be in Anyone’s Way
Mouse
Where Two or More Red Squirrels Are Gathered
A Chicken
Cirque du Soleil Squirrels
The Phoebes
Vernal Pools
Ant
Bats
Ladybug Bower
The Loft of Sleep
106 Summit Road
Sunday Drive
Silent Saturday
Fire and Air
In the Castro District
The Tides of Mom
Thinking of Mom on Her Ninety-Sixth Birthday
Hurricane Isabel
Flagmen
After the Windstorm
February Night
Ice Fangs
Cold Day
A Thermometer
March Crocus
The Frenzy of Spring
The Voice of the Ocean Called Out to Us Today
A Fine Day
Dandelions
The Sensitive
Night
Secret
Room
Release
Gathering Lilacs
Lilies
Waking Up
The Day Off
Captivity
I Stack Books
The Echo of Words
Unsettled
Heretics of Reality
The Elasticity of Love
Surging Life Force
Altering Impermanence
The Roots of Everything
Already Here
I Want to Be Like a Mountain Goat
Smokey
Boomerang of Love
White Hair
Looking Back at the Last Moment
Ancestral Language
Teanga na Sinsear (“Ancestral Language”)