The Hour-Keeper

He keeps the hours the way other people keep bees — gently, and with full attention. The staff is older than the staff knows. The ants are on time. The owl is a colleague. Somewhere in the vines, the clocks are agreeing on something only they understand. Wear this on the days you'd like to be presided over by something patient. The kind of patron saint who does not check his messages, because the messages know to wait.