in deference to Robinson Jeffers's “vision of the self-hanged god”

whither one god,

from many gods,

came the god of time

hanging, chained, from the world's tree...

whose disciples preach

living in the moment:

           now

not then, not when

           now...

to stop time,

make it stand still,

and last forever:

            immortality.

                           tick...tick...tick...