Listening

Listening to Matt Haig’s wonderful audiobook
HOW TO STOP TIME
I felt the urge to jot down this rhyme:
Haig’s names and numbers ring a bell.
We’re on the same wavelength, I can tell.
My father’s name Albert and the Albas
have “Alb” in common.
Pronounced to sound like high, not hay,
the name Haig is a common Armenian first name,
which reminds me of my husband, Haigaz Kaboolian.
Although Haigaz contains Haig the two names are not the same.
But here’s number 8 for “every eighth year”.
My name Ute means 8 in Armenian, I hear.
I also cannot help but see, horizontally placed,
the figure 8 symbolizes infinity.
Then I come across my birth year ’31.
This game of numbers is certainly fun.
(He kept the secret for another 31 years).
Now I get goosebumps and shed happy tears
for Tom’s dog’s name, Abraham, brings to mind
Esther Hicks’s Abraham publications, documentary SECRET,
and books and workshops of the inspirational kind.
Reverse dog, you get god.
One of my sons calls me Utes, which rhymes with lutes.
On YouTube, guitarist and artist Wayne Thiel,
which rhymes with eel, and I
are the ThielUtes. (Tom plays the lute.)
Reverse Tom, you get “mot”, French for “word”.
I am writing this verse, of course, in Word.
The book’s chapter headings have numbers galore
to make associations as never before.
Numbers, names and events are there for us to find
when we recognize them joyfully as parts of ourselves:
common threads in our ever-evolving mind.
5 stars for HOW TO STOP TIME. It’s sublime.
After daylight savings time we turn back the clock today.
Is tit a sign? Coinciding incidences align.
We create our own reality.
All That Is, is divine.

Ute Kaboolian

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