once a second passes
it is dead and irretrievable
forever the past
and memory
just the pale watercolour
impressionist painting
that we trail behind us
and the notion
of killing time
is a gross suicide
on our existence
and I buried a clock
in a shallow grave
but could still hear it ticking
Jackie Oh is the penname of Jacqueline O’Neill, a Northern Irish poet and writer. Her previous
collection is Fahrenhate (Locofo Chaps, 2017), a chapbook of anti-Trump poems. She is not to be confused with the racehorse by the same name.