Bullet Points
My list of places and circumstances that caused emotional states I can’t name.
- Another sleepless night. You climb up to the rooftop telescope to look out into the inky ether. Focus on your own soul so far away, so vast, mysterious as a quasar.
- You follow the dainty hoof prints in the sand down the dry riverbed to the waterhole. Spot huge cat pugmarks fresh in moist dirt then slowly look over your shoulder.
- The sky empty of planes. You let your ears make up their own noise out of raw silence. Feel the void fill you.
- The last day you hike to the abandoned silver mine. You stand before the dry-rotted timber beams and proclaim: This desert lacks the water needed to sluice out the precious metal that is life.
CW, these are immaculately conceived moments.
For me the the feeling of the void filling me is the sense of connecting into the neural networks of the universe.
bhi
Bhi, thanks for the perceptive comment. For me the void feeling came right after 9-11 and they stopped the planes flyng over Phoenix for a few days. The silence due to the lack of constant air-breaking jets when I was hiking in South Mountain Park gave me this high strangeness void feeling that stayed with me.
I liked it very much, if only we still had poetry challenges, I would create a new one, free verse prose or prosetry called Bullet Points.
excellent stuff
Great comment. Bullet points are supposed to be the most important part of a business message. Why not use them for poetry?