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Good evening, or morning, or afternoon, depending on when you've stumbled across this page. Today is January 23, 2023, and I have slowly...

Saturday, April 2, 2022

Pregnant Pauses

 

Anticipation is a calm lake

Or a bubbling sulphuric spring,

Reaction held by surface tension,

Steam showing what is to come.


You wait both excited and anxious

Frantically searching the facade,

Expecting the piercing screech,

Yet all remains silent.


A single external movement

Of word or deed,

An imperceivable internal image,

Can trigger an explosion.


The spouts of rage touching

Everything within reach,

The quaking subsides quietly,

Tension always just under the surface.





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