Each Little Hour

Each Little Hour

I would not know the measure of today,

Lest blind recusant I

Should seek to wile some potent hour away

That test would sanctify.

I would not list the monochord of fate,

Her votive seer to be,

Lest I should cringe from duty consummate,

And chortle to be free.

Of alchemy, to probe, erewhile the end.

I seek no whit of power —

Suffice within my microcosm's trend

To live each little hour.

BertJw A. Kleinman.

Mesa, Ariz.