NaPo/GloWriMo - Day 23

 April 23, 2023 write a poem of your own that has multiple numbered sections. Attempt to have each section be in dialogue with the others, like a song where a different person sings each verse, giving a different point of view. Set the poem in a specific place that you used to spend a lot of time in, but don’t spend time in anymore.

I
The clock ticked

it's even 
thrumming beat
strangely comforting
in the now nearly empty kitchen

II
Across the room
the cat
sits in the window
tail swaying 
with each pulse 
of the ancient timepiece
waiting for her turn
in the moving van

III
It was as if
everything paused
for a brief yet interminable moment
where the last 100 years
flew by
in a blur
of cracked vinyl chairs
the smell of rye bread
and cigarettes
and chewing tobacco

IV
Broken now
by the chime of the clock
"It is time..."
it seems to say
but it is time
that we have run out of

V
Empty rooms
dust motes slowly floating down
small feline footprints in the dust
and a clean spot on the shelf
where the matriarch 
of the family
once sat