Sunrise Alarm

Let's workshop this poem about the complex interplay between mechanical and natural rhythms in human life through a lens of estrangement versus belonging.

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Sunrise Alarm

Clockwork regimentation
may estrange us from rhythms
baked in long enough

to deserve the title 
“organic,” but it—thrusting us
into modes, habitats, beyond

“dream time”—estranges us
never from natural rhythms 
nothing can fail to have. 

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