Enigma of the hour

a testament to ingenuity of ages past
the aqueducts stretch from vantage to horizon
the arches support a once life giving now foot path for tourists
a fountain gurgles decoratively near but something is off:
an all too modern clock adorns the path
complete with roman numerals
to look the time but doesn’t

if we could see in timely dimensions we’d see in-
side-out flying spinning right-side-in on top of
layers that move but stay constant through time

but linearly moving though space we perceive only
days hours months minutes the clock on the wall