hummingbird-time

bright sun; wet sneeze bursts ~
weaving roll: and drops glint past ~
we live at tenth speed ~


Photo credit: pschubert from morguefile.com

I've read that hummingbird hearts beat ten to twenty times as fast as ours. Perhaps they experience time differently?

No Now

picture four clock hands _
hour, minute, second, trice hands _
buy more batteries! _

Oh what a wild idea - a trice hand to whiz around once every second. And why not extend this fable, oh dear me, a fifth hand - the jiff hand. Spinning along once every trice. So when exactly is now anyway?