Wednesdays

If it were two days earlier

it's safe to assume my wet

steps could be seen dragging

down the street, wrapping it

firmly to a cold, uncaring Earth.

Two days later would be something else,

entire stones going unstamped,

nameless faces in the crowd as I

sprint by rustling trees, commuters

and my own shadow, by then a mere footnote

from a book I would read on days like today,

in-between days in between places,

a day whose backwards steps can be traced

through the centuries, perhaps a taciturn penance

Gregorians thought little of from their damp, grey cells

Note: While Wednesday is commonly considered the third day of the week in the Gregorian calendar and subsequently in ISO standards, this is actually one day earlier than what it had been in older systems - such as the Mesopotamian calendar - which the Gregorian calendar came to replace in many parts of the world.