Faces of Time

Blue pants and high heels
click-clack, "They're black."
she says.

Divots on cheeks
drip-drop: a puddle
for touch.

Pull lip and bite tongue
Gnaw-nah, "Never
too hard."

One day and one step
click-clack, closer
to death.

Chasms on perfect quartz
tick-tock, faces
of time.

Tick hands turn tock.
Each click brings clack.
Gnaw at touch nah.
Drip rivers drop change.