Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
What Time is it in Wal-Mart?
And call to children in the yard
“What century is it outside?”
-Pasternak, “About These Poems”
My daughter gave me a nifty Apple watch
But years have passed; it mostly spends its time
On the charger, dreaming of happier hours
When minutes joyfully leaped over each other
I found my dusty Timex in a dusty drawer
$8.00 at Wal-Mart a long time ago
(the watch, not the drawer)
I fitted it with a new battery (I can do stuff)
Its sweep hand leaps over its painted dial
