Just before the turn

It’s not quite time

for the quiet click

that signals

the start up of a new cycle,

not quite where the whirrings

of the measuring machinery

propel the system on

past the pause at the top of the circle

into the subtle push

before momentum picks up

and sends the circle onward . . .

Not quite time,

but we can pause,

here as anywhere,

to let our breath catch up.

©Wendy Mulhern

December 31, 2013