it will give you goosebumps

this guy was the winner of the william carlos williams poetry competition last year...he won both first and second prize. god, i want to meet this man.

Timepiece
I came upon the watch you gave me
At the bottom of the dresser drawer,
Still obstinately chopping one moment from another
To a musty audience of old ticket stubs,
Half-chewed pencils, bits of string,
An assortment of anti-fungal medication
And a scattering of vagrant coins
Caught here and kept for a time
From their journey from pocket to pocket.

Few things we engineer we want to last
Like watches do, to be this sure and steady,
To drag us wrist-first
From door to door
As if we would be lost without them,
Pounding their battery-powered rhythms
Into our echoing souls
Until we know the minute and the hour
Of every arrival, delay, and departure
Through the stale concourses of our lives.

And though I have long since forsaken
This one for another, more waterproof,
One that I can wear into the shower,
I have not forgotten that small scratch
From the boulder in the Adirondacks,
The flecks of white paint from your garage,
A faint smudge that might be suntan lotion
From our Sunday afternoons upon the beach,
And the holes that gape from the worn leather band,
One for my wrist, and one for yours.