I ask the clock

what time it is

she replies

‘Sticks and stones

track the path

of the moon’

I call

‘Non sequitur’

I ask the clock

if I can halt time

travel at light speed

and in the moment

feel nothing at all

as I age to dust

as age I must

she answers

‘Circularity’

© Ann Bagnall

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