snatched from
listening
(impotent
seismogram
jitter-bugging
the screen)

wave=sound…?

(what if a tree falls
and no one
is there
to record it?)

sky: a
450 nanometer wave
(what sound
does blue make?)

oscillations
drawn by
the ocean
are transient
sand
patterns
reformed and reformed
and reformed and
reforming
and never affirmed
(water is fickle
that way)

ocean
drawing
drawing wave drawing
drawing drawing wave
wave
draws

is sound is the
is sound sound the
sound the
sound
the sound is
sound

is is is
ocean is wave
is
ocean sound ocean
is draw is ocean is
ocean
drawing the
sound of
time beginning?

…

Search Engine Stories - 27 Sept. 08 - prompt: ‘drawn by the sea’

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pure. riveting.

undeniable as it is cliche.

voice beseeching the timeless sky.

a soliloquy agonized of beckoning—filled with wanting.

3, 4, 5, engines.

containers stacked 2 and 3 high.

a mile of wheel bearings and couplings churn out

the rhythm loop: wuthawunk-wuthawunk-wuthawunk-wuthawunk…

breathless listening.

pitch shifting with the weight

and yaw of the load. in the predawn gray

a distant freighter calls out. its first two pleadings each

answered by

a single yip and a howl.

the long dopplering third echoed by

coyote song. a duet in counterpoint—paired forlorn elasticity of sound.

and then silence.

each maestro unanswered

in their yearning. unimaginable how

that must feel. points out to me all I can never know about loneliness.

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