Where Does All That Time Go?

by John Robert Grogan 

I’d like to think it ends
curled up and dusty 
on lifetimes of memories,
an old snake in a washbasin,
behind the crusty half-used
forgotten paint tins
and the petrified hog- 
bristle brushes, overlooked
like the mildewy terracotta 
herb pots, stacked and lonely
as an unplanted seed
and the redback in her corner --
who kills everything she touches
— under the threatening smile 
of a bow-saw, beside the drunken
lean of a mattock with a cracked 
handle, the snake in brumation,
down the back shed.

John Robert Grogan (aka: JR) (He/Him) is an Irish-Australian poet based in Sydney, Australia. Life in country Ireland and his global wanderings have cultivated a curiosity and love for the natural world, and the connectivity of all things.