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Poetry Friday, Week 6: A Timely Prompt

2/10/2022

 
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Linda at TeacherDance  is full of hearts in many different forms.  Thank you for hosting today.

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A Clock and Books

© Jone Rush MacCulloch
2022

Mixed media (photos, magazine, ink, napkin)

Created for Laura Shovan’s 10th Annual February Poetry Project: “Time”. This quote from Tom Robbins speaks to me:  

“A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences.” 
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

As well as  this quote from Albert Einstein: “Time is relative.”
The clock is a photo of my great uncle’s clock which he won at the 1908 Bloomsburg Fair in Pennsylvania.  It’s sitting on a photo of my grandmother’s tatting.

My poem is inspired from a writing on Taylor Mali's blog. I used the "I Remembered" prompt to get started I had the 
privilege of listening to his talk last night, "Debt of Memory."  It was exactly what I needed, especially the term "augmented memory.'

I Remembered

The American Mantle Clock
chimed during family dinners

Great-uncle Jim’s prize,
won at the 1908 Bloomsburg Fair

Traveled from the Pennsylvania woods
to the California high desert in the 40’s

Perched atop the handcrafted china closet,
feather dusted by many young hands
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I raced the clock to finish,
diagramming sentences before the hour

of gloaming as the wheels and gears
of my mind spun stories in syncopated time


© 2022, jone rush macculloch






LInda Baie link
2/10/2022 09:22:25 pm

Now you have my own wheels turning from this awesome prompt, Jone. And your poem with memories surrounding that special clock. I love the history thought of "feather dusted by many young hands." Wonderful all!

Carol Varsalona link
2/10/2022 10:18:24 pm

Jone, I love your handmade collage. It has so many details that I keep looking at it to find more details.Your poem is must read mentor text for a Taylor Mali genealogy poem. You inspired me to try writing one.

Michelle Kogan link
2/10/2022 10:26:11 pm

Working those sentences out to the steady tick-tock of that old clock, and the "wheels and gears of" your mind moving at your own pace–beautiful–Gorgeous collage, and wonderful prompt, thanks Jone!

Rose Cappelli
2/11/2022 03:35:52 am

The collage you created is fascinating, as is your poem. I could hear the rhythm of the clock as I read it. Love the idea of stories spun in syncopated time. Thanks for sharing your memories.

PATRICIA J FRANZ link
2/11/2022 07:05:58 am

Such wistful thoughts to match the art! Your words transport me to the clocks and tick-tocks that sound in my own heart. Thank you.

Karen Eastlund
2/11/2022 10:22:27 am

Great pompt and poem! Thank you Jone! Love the visual, and now I'm thinking about my grandpa's clock, sitting above me right now, and how it started and chimed again recently. .

Molly Hogan link
2/12/2022 01:49:43 am

Your collage is wonderful, Jone, and you've created such a rich prompt to accompany it. I especially love "as the wheels and gears/ of my mind spun stories in syncopated time". I'll have to check out Taylor Mali's site. Thanks for that nudge.

Linda link
2/12/2022 10:35:23 am

Jone, you got me remembering my grandparents' mantle clock, and how I used to love the sounds it made. Thank you for bringing back that memory. Your collage and poem are both so lovely!

Bridget Magee link
2/13/2022 02:09:12 am

Time well spent on your collage and poetry, Jone. I love that a napkin was integral to your gorgeous creation. :)

Ruth link
2/13/2022 03:42:49 am

Such beautiful words and images! Thank you for this!

Carol J. Labuzzetta link
2/15/2022 08:32:14 am

Love the ending to this Jone - syncopated time... The whole poem is extraordinary in how it is so relatable. (We have a lot of clocks - some old like yours, and some new, made by my husband.) Thank you for sharing.

Janet Clare F.
2/17/2022 05:21:55 am

Oh, Jone, I love this. I am so far behind but will catch up by Mon. on both tomorrow's and last week's posts. How I love and learn from them. I just want to say that I used to go to classes in Bloomsburg when we lived near Wilkes Barre, PA briefly. I got a degree of some sort from Bloomsburg, I think and went on for an EdD in a cooperative program with IUP (Indiana U of Penn) in the western part of PA south of Punxatawney. A fabulous experience. I love the quote! And your poem. So important that syncopated time, so important to use our time and life well if we are able. And a book containing sentences, a poem containing words, how heavenly when I think about it.


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