Fifty-Three
When you have been journeying, life in the house slows to a crawl.
I go to the window. I go to the window again.
A strange stillness settles over the home in these lines. The speaker says that after “you” have been journeying, life inside the house “slows to a crawl.” That phrase works two ways: the traveler’s absence makes the house feel empty and slow, and the person left behind loses normal momentum.
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