Ratchet Heart

   19990402.1218

Your ratchet heart has slipped its pawl
And backwards now it spins.
The spring unwinds -- a whispered gasp
Recounting all your sins.

Your clockwork mind in freefall drawl,
Unburdened by the pins
And gearwork chocks and friction's grasp,
In growing panic dins.

Your mainspring will begins to sprawl;
Omnipotency thins.
The closing-catch has loosed the hasp --
Reversed momentum wins.

Your key-wound soul, by wayward awl
Is punctured 'neath the chins
And stung by time's mechanic asp.
Enthalpic chaos grins!

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