Skin Of Fog
Fog furs the new-thawed ground,
felts brown husks
in grey
as if winter had never been
or freeze.
A self-disguising spray
blurs the letters on my wall
as if there'd been no scarlet scrawl,
just a wound of air rough-covered with
a gypsy's laugh,
fog's soft uneasy peace
dead at the first sign of heat.
~February 2015
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Weekend Challenge: Flash Fiction 55 Plus
Kerry's plus this month is to add a color. Mine is the color of fog.
Image: The Pont de Courbevoie. 1886, Georges Seurat
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I'm struck by the final four lines, especially; the physicality visible in the gypsy laugh, and the keen observation in the final couplet. I first read 'skein of fog', but that's just my deteriorating eyesight... ~
ReplyDeleteFog's an ambivalent intermediary here, between both the winter that has passed and the heat that is to come. A safe distance and a strangling void. Yes: "A wound of air rough-covered with /
ReplyDeletea gypsy's laugh..."