Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO AN ELECTRIC CLOCK, by WALTER G. RICHARDSON


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TO AN ELECTRIC CLOCK, by                    
First Line: Formal as your fathers, tranquil as night
Last Line: Why do you not speak if you wish to boast?
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


Formal as your fathers, tranquil as night,
Your hands move teasingly around the dial.
Where did you leave your tick-tock note and guile?
No coo-coo pintail speaks in his happy rite
To tell me the hour. I must strike a light,
I must burn my eyes to find your mark --
You have no token, comfort in the dark.
Have you no heritage other than flight?
You are mute as your shelf, lonely as shadow.
Have you your wheels with you? I doubt there's one
And go to the dial out in the meadow
Where sunlight plays with clover quite alone
And marks the time by the fence-line post.
Why do you not speak if you wish to boast?





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