Watch - Anna Jackson

Elvira says look! there’s a clock
on my watch!

There’s a clock on my watch too.
Now I can watch the time

objectively, as if it weren’t internally
clocking the time with every cell,

every beat of my heart.
Who beats my heart?

I can’t beat time, just watch
the clock.

Elvira says, I am a dog cat,
woof meow, woof meow.

Tick tock,

watch clock.


Sharpe, I. (Ed.). (2001, January 1). Best New Zealand Poems 2001. Retrieved from http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/bnzp/2001/home.html