or Northern Ladle or Bushel Measure  
 turns like the hand of a clock measuring time  
 although no punctuating tick or tock  
 notches its arc, sunset to sunrise. 
  
 Its handle divides the year into seasons,  
 pointing towards earth at dusk in autumn,  
 upward at dusk in spring, in winter  
 twilight west, in summer east. 
  
 And so it is and was and shall be  
 but not world without end (and neither  
 was it so from the world’s beginning).