Rushing Days

Rushing Days 
Time doesn’t belong to us. —Caroline Kennedy

The urge to frame time,
stretch it the way I want
We don’t have agency

The chance to question,
notice, create 
A gift, unbounded
in its wonder

Most people want
to get through this 
then that
I prefer days to linger
minutes taking hours
a week into a month
Time to dawdle, loiter— 
mind drifting through words
brushes playing with paint