| Softening This
morning, fog. A street with a row of streetlights, a pyramid of light under
each, like the image of the great pyramid with a glowing eye at the peak.
A row of them. A street lined with pyramids. Feeling both instantaneous and
ancient.
The
sky, the fog not so thick above, revealing wispy cloud shapes, like delicate
rose petals, gently changing hues. Underneath,
instead of the hard, shiny world of my immediate worries, I walked in the world
of ghosts. Ghosts of those who came before, when this was just a beautiful place,
not yet a city. Ghosts of those who made it a city. And so many ghosts of me,
of my brother, phantoms of my childhood and my teen years and twenties. And of
other people I cared about also, now scattered or gone. In
those pyramids of light, I intersected with their paths, missing them in time,
but just barely, somehow. It
made me a little sad, but that is part of softening, too.
(words:
S. Wing, Florida; picture: D. Lang, Germany)
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