Stand-in
the clock I hear in my absence
I owe it a letter
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 18 November 1665.
Dave Bonta
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the clock I hear in my absence
I owe it a letter
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 18 November 1665.
Dave Bonta's "Stand-in" is only a few words long, but it opens up a strange, quiet scene. The speaker is away from home, and in their absence a clock keeps going. They can't actually hear it, yet they imagine it ticking in the empty room, doing its job with nobody there to listen.
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