Sophia Falco
Hourglass
The sand in the hourglass is missing
though the glass is not shattered.
I discovered the tan grains scattered
in my green porcelain bathtub.
I decided to let the water flow from
the silver faucet, and the sand swirled.
The crystal-clear water was too
transparent so I added blue dye.
I created an ocean, and when I shut
the faucet off, time sank back to the bottom.
—Submitted on 06/24/2020
Sophia Falco is the author of The Immortal Sunflower (UnCollected Press, 2020), a winner of the Raw Art Review Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in The Mindful Word, The Esthetic Apostle, The Festival Review, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, The Poetry Matters Project, and other journals. Falco recently graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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