Stardust (Becomings)

 

I was firstborn,

early child

of watch! and hourglass.

He ticked me away,

but she managed to

grind me up. That's why

I am fistborn

pear(l), the living image

of her broken bell(y). 

My father gave me clockwisdom, 

I taught 

myself to be anticlock-

wise. But it was you,

my love,

who made me into these tiny little

sparks between the uni-

verses.