online: 4 october 2011 modified: 3, 4 october 2011 3 october 2011 late summer
edge of forest
...at the edge of the forest... surrounded by dry leaves... after days of unusual warmth beneath clear skies and wispy clouds... everyone is wearing summer clothes again... and despite fallen leaves the vegetation looks as if it is staying green for the moment...
...couples... women with children... runners... adapt their posture as they walk up or down a slope nearby.... hastened or slowed by gravitation...
...while invisible software is automatically fitting these written words and lines to the size of the touch screen...
...just now i happened to begin a phrase that appears in an earlier writing which the software remembers... immediately it automatically copied and pasted about a dozen words that followed in what i'd written years ago... when i clicked 'delete paste' (or some such command) the inserted words disappeared... and then i wrote something similar...
...dusk begins and thoughts of absent things call me to return... but something keeps me here at the edge of forest and of city... and of this writing process...
...the trees around me stay the night and every night... as light retreats and earth revolves and children run chattering up the hill nearby...
...then as i walk slowly along a downhill road i see my shadow (from a street lamp) leading me along the ground beneath a half moon in clear sky... while i stopped to write this the moon moved half its diameter from the edge of someone's tv aerial that was aligned to it when this paragraph began... and i suppose everything physical has moved in that time interval... as in every other...
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