Kingdom of the Clock: A Novel in Verse

Such exchanges animate the kingdom // of the clock, but one by one their trades / complete, blink out like eyes. The city sleeps.

Set in a vibrant yet ragged coastal city, Kingdom of the Clock is a verse novel whose interwoven storylines begin with one day’s dawn and end at the first light of the next. Within the cycles of that single day, the lives of the city’s inhabitants unfold.

An aging stock promoter presides over the fruits of his predatory life. A woman tracks her husband’s iPhone to ...