Clockwork Behaviors

Clockwork behaviors

are at the root

of self-descriptions

on daily display.

Every one of us

has clockwork behaviors

that others recognize us by

as if these were better than

our almost illegible signatures.

We are always signing off

at the autograph table

of our day.

Most of these rituals

are unconsciously performed.

These behaviors

were penetrated

with superstition

or apprehension

or hidden kinesthetic joy

at some time

in their development.

These were insular infusions

beyond self-conscious

considerations that then

became mannerisms.

They are almost

inward initiations

that give us self-expansion

by compressed self-expression.

They provide us

with a sense of ceremony.

They lend windows to our souls.

We share our movement

within a greater social context

as a collective agreement

that these, as our actions,

exercise us

with motion and forms.

We have them

as self-sacraments

to let our inner guidance

have performance.

There is an elegant efficiency

from mindset

to behavioral trickledown.

These, as modus operandi,

are as signature behaviors

idiosyncronized to where

pretense pretends to out weigh

its purposeful deeds.

Every one of us

has a knack for being ourselves

as others see us.

And clockwork behaviors

are the palette

upon which each of us

is so deeply based

and colorfully on display.

We are each living

the palate alive

in our own language,

in hopes that the gods

will reverently overhear

and blessedly

but secretly respond . . .