Night, straining toward cool. The cats on the porch startle at my approach then slide into the dark. A quiet house. The room’s single lamp.
Monthly Archives: August 2013
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Night, back porch. Crickets, frogs, faint music from a house. A weight of words unsaid to people far away presses down, like an unseen hand.
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The airport. An expansive loneliness after passing through security. The mind hurtling before the body across oceans to another shore.
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Thunder percusses soil and rock and I feel it through my feet. A strength verging on violence, a power smelling of destruction.