We arrive late and in the rain and are forced to prowl slowly up and down dark streets, u-turning against one-ways, up one alley down another. She sits silently tense but I keep my chatter going, expressing each next move a few seconds in advance. Explaining, joking. I'm going to try a right turn again, but this time I'll be sure to turn left before the one-way starts. I turn right and she opens her phone for the hundredth time, types madly, squirms on the car seat, closes the phone. The sudden disappearing glow of it makes our little capsule even darker than before.
We rocked and the stars
were chips of ice. Her lungs cleared.
One breath and one breath.
April 15. The journey
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FranklyDireMember
- Joined: June 7th, 2015, 6:45 pm
Yes, trapped by a one-way system in a strange city
and a nightmare scenario. The darkness in the car
interesting and the dying of the light.
and a nightmare scenario. The darkness in the car
interesting and the dying of the light.
Very nice.We arrive late and in the rain and are forced to prowl slowly up and down dark streets,
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toniclarkMember
- Joined: May 5th, 2006, 6:47 pm
Hey Jude, I dreamed about you last night. A long meandering dream in which we were attending a writing conference together.
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Moll ArundelMember
- Joined: October 29th, 2017, 8:13 pm
I wish I'd written that. It's perfect! How I have longed to write a decent haibun and here you make it look easy. Off to IBPC with you!
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JudeGoodwinMember
- Joined: May 3rd, 2006, 5:58 am
That would be so fun!toniclark wrote: Hey Jude, I dreamed about you last night. A long meandering dream in which we were attending a writing conference together.