Brevity
Today we listen to the call of silence.
And I saw a field of green grass as wide as the sky with nothing except a fence re- -ceding, a child, a speck in the distance do- ing cartwheels.
Nothing spectacular this week - a nice 5/3 stomp. My Substack posts are basically just a way to keep me accountable. I write so much and edit so little that it forces me to pull something from what I wrote and put it out there. Stay frosty.
The poem feels like one of those tiny moments that somehow open something inside you. It’s so short, but it leaves this wide, quiet space in your mind — a field stretching out forever, nothing happening except a child turning cartwheels far away. There’s something incredibly tender in that distance, like watching joy from the edge of the world. The broken words make the scene feel even more delicate, as if the memory itself were breathing. What struck me most is how peaceful it feels: no noise, no drama, just a bit of life unfolding in silence. The fence fading into the horizon almost suggests that limits aren’t as solid as we think. And that child — just a speck — somehow becomes the whole centre of the poem. It’s amazing how a handful of lines can hold so much quiet beauty.
And yet, beautiful :)