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Doomed by their Parts

Movements Stopped--"Horror"ology

By Lea Waske Published about a year ago 1 min read
Doomed by their Parts
Photo by Heather Zabriskie on Unsplash

Do old timepieces

Face eternity, waiting

In second-hand shops?

In horology, a movement, also known as a caliber, is the mechanism of a watch or timepiece, as opposed to the case, which encloses and protects the movement, and the face, which displays the time.

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About the Creator

Lea Waske

I left Vocal last spring to publish "Where the Bush Planes Flew", a memoir & history of a remote northern Ontario FN with Indigenous artist, Saul J. Williams.& "A Yuletide Adventure",3rd in my children's series. (Both on Amazon)

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Comments (3)

  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarranabout a year ago

    I learnt a new term today, horology. Thank you for sharing this! Loved your Haiku!

  • ARCabout a year ago

    “…*second-hand* shops.” 🤯 Bravo 👏

  • Moe Radosevichabout a year ago

    Love it 😀

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