i.
the pendulum is stuck
jammed up real good
rusted red
a shattered wooden shoe
a sabot
crushed in the gears
listen all y'all it's a sabotage
ii)
experience chart paper hangs
sun bleached
brittle
full of faded ink
faded ideas
iii)
wild turkeys watch
safe
across the long icy ditch
lone coyote walks away
slow and steady
through new snow
on his long lonely path
rabbits run
into the cedar thicket
iv)
F150 rumbles into the curve
black ice fish tails
tires shoot frozen gravel
crows scatter
fly into barren trees
land on a rusted out
Alice Chalmers tractor
Lovely snippets of January days. My fave is iii), it tells me of the fight for survival. :)
ReplyDeleteSo strange to realise you are deep in winter, while here DownUnder we're very hot. I love that this goes into wintry detail without being in the least clichéd, and tells me things I wouldn't otherwise have known.
ReplyDeleteI do love the vivid depiction of the winter scenes, but it's the imagery of the first part that really sticks with me.
ReplyDeleteI was mesmerized by each of your vignettes. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteYou took me into deep winter. Here on the West Cost, we have our first fleeting snowfall. Thanks for your comment on my blog, kiddo. The news is too much to be borne these days. Yet we somehow keep on.
ReplyDeleteI loved your fragments.
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