THE KORFISH CLOCK

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