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Listening to the Clock

Listening to the Clock Robert Morgan Appalachian Heritage, Volume 32, Number 3, Summer 2004, p. 18 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2004.0070 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/434591/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:31 GMT from JHU Libraries Listening to the Clock The old time keeper in its box, an heirloom with a lisp and limp, goes scratching out the seconds, dry, as if time were an itch it had to answer to. And then the tocks sound like a drip or leak in time, as though a giant reservoir had cracked and seeped into the world with no direction or intent, except the skip of tiny drops inexorably and downward sent into the gulping vacuum. And then the gulf is filled by chimes. —Robert Morgan http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Listening to the Clock

Appalachian Review , Volume 32 (3) – Jan 8, 2014

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Abstract

Robert Morgan Appalachian Heritage, Volume 32, Number 3, Summer 2004, p. 18 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2004.0070 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/434591/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:31 GMT from JHU Libraries Listening to the Clock The old time keeper in its box, an heirloom with a lisp and limp, goes scratching out the seconds, dry, as if time were an itch it had to answer to. And then the tocks sound like a drip or leak in time, as though a giant reservoir had cracked and seeped into the world with no direction or intent, except the skip of tiny drops inexorably and downward sent into the gulping vacuum. And then the gulf is filled by chimes. —Robert Morgan

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 2014

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