Starfish

there are 38 Coordinated Universal Time offsets, or “time zones”
complicating matters is the fact that time itself
is a human construct making it more difficult to communicate
in the world’s current 7,117 languages

the shortest measurable time span is
247 zeptoseconds, the time it takes a single light particle
to pass through a hydrogen molecule
and yet

Hindu texts define one day in the life of God as
3,110,400,000,000 years
here I am now, patiently waiting for that starfish
to open

[RK, 1/28/24]