Published: 29th July 2021
Image: gR
This poem was placed 1st in the "A STRAND (1045)" contest sponsored by Brian Strand (Judged 2nd February 2022)
above the metronomic constant dripping of a tap and the deep and heavy ticking of an old grandfather clock sounds seeped through a window where the night air found a gap: a cough! - then silence. ..then a key inside a lock.
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