Next time

When one isn’t accustomed to seeing the hands of time
            spinning
            at the same altitude as a bird, soaring

            moving in the direction that times moves,
                        clockwise, forward

One never forgets a first encounter
with a time-keeping face, grand in its appearance
a face, highly visible, that watches, as it organizes and directs

for me it was the D & F Clocktower in downtown Denver
            (circa 1985)

A teenager standing on a street corner taking photos of the famous clocktower
            with a 35 mm camera – filmed developed, long gone

Just one more photo,
            just one more click in Bruges
kept me from enjoying a Belgian waffle
though I could taste the air, sweet & thick with syrupy scents

I was pondering all the Belfry Clock Tower in Bruges has seen,
high above a city rich in history

I was marveling at the time
I just wasn’t watching it

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter–tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning– So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Thanks for stopping by. Kind regards. Michele

my photos taken in and outside of the Bourgogne des Flandres Brewery in Bruges, Belgium

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