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16 9. OLD DEPENDENCY Sun-like, a satellite passes overhead between the least imperious hours of 2 and 5 am. A signal picked up from Colorado beams a setting for the time in Chicago back to earth. My watch sits meditating, on the sill, faces out the window at tonight’s radio sky. It is built for a connection I am not that it passes on when I aim at it my time pickup eye the set I need; and off the knees of its clasp wristband folded underneath, a timing sun’s worshipper— since I’ve forgotten how the sunrise set men’s cycles— listens to its crystal break time down, its atom tune the seconds . . . Our body’s band to the watched face of the sun, who tells the wake and sleep, comes in the style of our skin. That close a melanin-melatonin connection. Yet here’s an inorganic jewelry 17 connecting a crystal oscillation through a radio wave in orbit to setting itself to set my day. Gemstone cut music on my arm as if intravenous, cesium vibration, piped aortal broadcast, drum hour to my heart, let this renew an old interpretation how we could talk to rock, listen to plants explain in the stomach what membranous exchange is the dawn star with ear of corn; the watch, its passage, and waking flesh working to live in time. ...

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