Five o’clock and American tourists
in tracksuits and ballcaps gather
beneath the glockenspiel clock in Munich’s Marienplatz.
It’s delight to wait for the towering timepiece to chime.
Emily Waples is a recent graduate of Vassar College. She currently lives in England, where she's a bartender. She is also reading for a master's degree in English and American Studies at the University of Oxford.