writings, musings, poetry from the south shore of the north coast
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Random Sentences 1
Instead of the thick, white oval he was expecting, the pond was pure, clear glass. It had frozen so quickly it caught fish in mid-swim. You could see right to the bottom. Ben had never seen such perfection.
OK- well this is what I was thinking and now that I have read Amy's last comment it wont make any sense but... What if Ben had fallen into the pond and could clearly see the fishes and the bottom. Time had stopped-like frozen water-because he was dead. Yeah, I know it's kinda cheesy but I never said I was a writer, just a functionally illiterate art director.
Author of poetry collection serious red (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1996) and a limited edition called queen of cups (Burning Press, 1993). Essays in Ordering the Storm (CSU Poetry Center) and elsewhere. Poems published in American Poetry Review, Barn Owl Review, Hobble Creek Review, Whiskey Island, DMQ Review, Nimrod, Southern Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, wicked alice, ArtCrimes, Harpur Palate, Gargoyle (#53), mirage period(ical), Taproot, Cleveland Slam Anthology, and others I can't remember or lost track of. Published in several Cleveland anthologies. Received two Ohio Arts Council individual fellowships and a memorable residency at Headlands Center for the Arts. Used to slam with the big boys. Live on a great lake, held in abeyance.
8 comments:
I love this. It's so surreal and magical . . .
I'll show you the whole (tiny) story...
hmmm. is ben seeing the water or himself?
Good question Dixie. But since it's a nonfiction piece, I'm pretty sure the real Ben doesn't mean himself!;>
OK- well this is what I was thinking and now that I have read Amy's last comment it wont make any sense but... What if Ben had fallen into the pond and could clearly see the fishes and the bottom. Time had stopped-like frozen water-because he was dead.
Yeah, I know it's kinda cheesy but I never said I was a writer, just a functionally illiterate art director.
who's ben? the non-plot, she thickens. or maybe i'm just thick-headed.
Dork and Dixie,
These sentences are out of context, and while the whole piece is short, it's too long for the blog. Interesting ideas though...
dork and dixie. sounds like a law firm. or a discount store.
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