7/22/2005

Calamity crushes4

Calamity crushes the round organ before releasing the precise chemical to attract another invader. As a carnival breaks down, birds flock to the location in search of forgotten nourishment. Ornithological inquiries have suggested in the past that polished surfaces create a sunlike light inside the avian eye itself. The lens clarifies the light until the viewer can no longer distinguish between the self and the scene viewed.

As the fair receded the weight of such distracted vision pressed upon the ocular cavity. The jersey shore, made completely a mess, tore away from its standard amalgamation to resemble a streamlined version of itself. The shore was smooth as lavender, a miraculous bowl of decay. The collapsed rotunda left a straggling wedding party to manage under the hard rain. Sparrows pecked at what was left of the festivities. Many surmised the fault lay with the system of matrimony prevalent since the turn of the century. The groom had been lured to follow his never-to-be wife into streets littered with popcorn, but pursuing her bright bicycle through the underground network of channels proved impossible. When called out of the hovel, several young men cried to journalists of the abandoned shacks left in clumps along the storm-swept vista. Grass will grow on the high dunes this time next year, said one stout man.

The wind enveloped passers-by with a profound fury and a wish to be airborn spread across the city. Strange Delights, a candy shop on a well-lit street, perfumed the air with caramel apples. Strains of light conversation shifted and cleared like the tide, revealing no clear purpose. Surveyors came to measure the potent asides being uttered by women hanging laundry out their windows.

When the office called he was obliged to type up a final draft of his account. The last sentence of which began, “Since space-time follows this injunction…” He spent his time at the office drinking unclear liquids and speaking lowly into his tape-recorder. His vision was clouded with the image of a calf's eye being split in two by an unsteady hand.

1 Comments:

At 4:11 PM, Blogger Stanley Bishop Burhans said...

I like this a lot. Especially the last two paragraphs. Great scene-painting

 

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