I turned around in bed last night to see the Man curled up beside me, in a deep sleep. A wedge of streetlight came in through the window and splashed across the foot of our bed, and the chestnut tree rustled in the wind. Two leaves gone, four, golden summer dropping away one leaf at a time. The clocks went back silently, but I think I woke up at the moment that they did, and saw the timeless things around which the world turns. Golden leaves falling in the wind, streetlight, the fan of a lovers eyelashes.
I took it in, in the half-dark: Time passing, time stopping, time moving backwards. And us standing together within it.
I took it in, in the half-dark: Time passing, time stopping, time moving backwards. And us standing together within it.
