Potential Titles: Tick

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The clocks are ticking in the cricket grass - Julia Alvarez "Intimations of Mortality from a Recollection in Early Childhood"

Ticking down into rust - Simon Armitage "Prometheus"

Stray thoughts from the gentle ticking of action - Russ Bickerstaff "Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day"

Liquid ticking in a petrified railway station - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"

The kitchen with its ticking faucet - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"

Our instinct ticked all the boxes - Kristina Erny "Abduction"

The clock's tick troubles the silence - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"

Time ticking hard on midnight - Thomas Hardy "The Collector Cleans His Picture"

Rising to the tick of two clocks - Seamus Heaney "Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication for Mary Heaney 1. Sunlight"

Hums and ticks like a washed penny - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Curiosities"

The second hand ticking gently in front of the eyes - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

The hollow rhythm of the ticking clock - Percy MacKaye "Fight: The Tale of a Gunner at Plattsburgh"

Carved wood, wherein the death-watch ticks - John Masefield "The Haunted"

The clock ticks to my heart - John Masefield "On Growing Old"

The scorpions tick-ticking on the sand - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

The death watch ticks within the walls - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Skeleton in the Cupboard"

Emptied my heart with the absence of every tick - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"

Leached and ticking with sunlight - Charles Wright "The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away"


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