My grandfather’s clock
is two inches too tall
to fit in my house
up against the wall.
.
I raised the ceiling
and lowered the floor,
took the hinges off
the dining-room door;
.
puffed and panted
to get it in
and then decided,
it made such a din
.
that I never wound the key,
so there it stands now stranded
at a quarter to three.
Graeme Sandford 