Remember?
A lost second. The silent crowd, then voices outside the door. Two strangers laughing.
I walked along the creek bed looking into the deep pools. The sun was burning into the center of the canyon, bedrock walls extending into infinity, one last illumination before the shadows consumed the creek. Violet shadows full of unseen thoughts undreamed and unremembered. Lost like the color of water; translucent and ancient like money.
A reflection of light trapped then released into the distant future; the shimmer of someplace I still can’t remember. I watched the darkness spreading downwards swallowing up the distance till the last light,the last breath of warm air snuffed out.
Remember, the sound of birds shifting into their night voices?
I began again on the next day. The world seemed changed; new, yet familiar like the beginning of summer. I held on to her words in my head afraid of losing myself to them.
She opened the front door. Sunlight poured in across the floorboards. We walked down the steps out into the empty street. The trees spoke in breaths of wind. The emptiness of words unspoken and beyond our grasp. She led me past the parked cars and the silent houses towards the end of the street. A metal railing blocked the road and dug into the cliff edge. The city spilled out across the landscape a thin crust of concrete and broken perspective lines. A dog was barking somewhere. I wanted to tell her everything but I couldn’t talk.
