This poem is taken from Stand 230, 19(2) June - July 2021.

Anthony Lawrence and Audrey Molloy from Ordinary Time
Killing time was a saying my father took literally.
           Returning from war, he refused to wear a watch
                      and banned clocks from the house.
           The exception to outlawing visible time
took the form of an intricate song machine—
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