My Grandfather’s Clock LettersToLizzie13

Dear Lizzie,

The clock ticks. Tick. Toc.

My grandfather’s or my own newborn one?

In a matter of days, they say, I will be born.

So what am I now, the unborn?

If not a nation, a notion?

Is my millennia of existence to evaporate the moment I emerge from your shadow, my birth declared …while my grandfather’s clock tic tocks …yeah

LettersToLizzie the book overshadowed by LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago only temporarily…soon you too will celebrate it’s birthday!

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