Challenge
Challenge of the Week CXII
Emotional Reaction. Perhaps it's an outburst of anger. Perhaps a fearful retreat. Perhaps still a poem, written of love. Choose an emotion (or two), and write about the reaction it causes. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
The Self-Conscious
In your
cinematographic
middle
new age
eye
do
you
witness
us
standing
by
and large
at the window
sill
where all emotion
comes spilling
in
reaching
far forward
with outstretched
fingerlings
to
draw
the curtains
back
and circumvent
a laugh or lash
that’s pausing
at the glass
just
at the edge
of our contacts
pan left then
right
to handle
the panorama
of our
ups
and downs
at
the turn
of the sentry...
where all these worldly
incarnations
of
Self
stand