24 : TIME IN FRAGMENTS

Time slid by when I had nothing to read but façades built up during the Industrial Revolution, sturdy in brick, slow in etched granite, sun brushed by, while inch by inch shadows climbed: Time sliding by, not for a moment ignored nor debased, but valued as yet another series of fragments in living life to the full. Pedestrians below lion’s head cornices & carved-stone, mid-nineteenth-century dates weren’t concerned with keeping track at all.