{"id":55,"date":"2025-10-14T12:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flounderingartist.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2025-10-24T18:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:35:18","slug":"october-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flounderingartist.com\/37-2\/about-this-space\/october-14\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clock Ticks &#8211; 400 words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"nfd-p-lg nfd-bg-primary nfd-rounded-lg wp-block-cover is-light has-parallax\" style=\"min-height:35vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-19 size-large has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/flounderingartist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Birthday-1012x1024.jpg)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-70 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#a58796\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"nfd-container nfd-gap-md is-style-nfd-theme-dark wp-block-group alignwide has-background is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fa38c63a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff00\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading nfd-text-huge nfd-text-contrast nfd-text-balance has-text-align-center\">Happy Birthday, erin cecelia.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"nfd-text-xs nfd-text-balance has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600;text-transform:uppercase\">Be Brave Be Vulnerable Be resilient Be kinD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"nfd-text-xs nfd-text-balance has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600;text-transform:uppercase\">Be all that you can be<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"nfd-container nfd-gap-md is-style-nfd-theme-dark wp-block-group alignwide has-background is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fa38c63a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff00\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading nfd-text-huge nfd-text-contrast nfd-text-balance has-text-align-center\"><br><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The clock ticks, clicks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Tick click<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;Click tick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And spins a golden dance&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Its own fair Scrambler under a glass dome.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Through generations it is passed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Marking seconds through the eyes of child without toys on rainy Sunday afternoons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Hours through wars when our young are stationed abroad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Marking minutes after midnight when a curfew is missed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Through fear that not everyone is just running late.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And when the phone rings to ask if he\u2019s home.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">A mother will know in an instant that he\u2019s never coming home again&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Tick&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Click<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Tick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cnot yet. I\u2019ll tell him you called\u201d Click<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Tick&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She wants to call 911. Click<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Tick There is an emergency&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She calls hospitals. Click<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Police click<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She lights a cigarette and circles the table<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">One way and then the other.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Her own fair Scramble under a Bell Jar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It breaks with the knock on the door.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Tick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She stamps out her smoke. click<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She steels herself against the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The latch opens, Tick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The officer need not speak.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He sees in her eyes she knows what he has come to say.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He wonders if he can get away without saying it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Can this moment of unspoken understanding be enough.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Click<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYou\u2019ll need to identify him at the hospital, ma\u2019am\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She nods, but doesn\u2019t break.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She grabs her coat and her keys and follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This is the last time she is whole.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">When she returns, the dawn has cracked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And she has cracked with it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She is a jigsaw of pieces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Solved into one whole being.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This night has not just carved away son\u2019s one piece.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It unstitched all the seams.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Pulled the piece from her heart,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The lines all crease deeper.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There isn\u2019t a glue that binds them to be framed and hung on the wall.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The tears come slowly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Nothing sticks when it\u2019s wet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This is the day the clock has stopped not only for him,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">For her too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Every smile will be shorter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Every laugh thinner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Every joy\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">there won\u2019t be any of that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She doesn\u2019t scramble \u2018round the kitchen&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She just sits in his bed&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Holding Moondoggie who felt the loss of the boy many years ago<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He had given his left eye to be the boy\u2019s faithful companion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And when he got left behind for the last time,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He\u2019d have given his right for one more day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Tonight they\u2019d cry together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Tock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">10-14 400 words no edits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clock ticks, clicks, Tick click &nbsp;Click tick And spins a golden dance&nbsp; 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