THE KORFISH
CLOCK
Korf invents a clock
where two
pairs of circling
hands are found,
one runs forward as
clocks do,
but as well one's
backward bound.
Pointing two- but
also ten;
pointing three- but
also nine;
one has but to see
it, then
gone is every fear
of time.
For with clocks on
Korfish time,
with their
Janus-parted course,
(that is why their
strange design)
time keeps
cancelling its force.
from the German of Christian Morgenstern
