{"id":153,"date":"2018-07-18T20:44:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unseenreality.org\/?p=153"},"modified":"2019-08-25T19:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T19:54:20","slug":"in-the-still-silent-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unseenreality.org\/index.php\/2018\/07\/18\/in-the-still-silent-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE STILL, SILENT SHADOW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Generations Know<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/unseenreality.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IN-THE-STILL-SILENT.pdf\">IN-THE-STILL-SILENT<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/unseenreality.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IN-THE-STILL-SILENT.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/unseenreality.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IN-THE-STILL-SILENT-SHADOW.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unseenreality.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Accidentally-on-purpose-photo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34\" width=\"242\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"http:\/\/unseenreality.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Accidentally-on-purpose-photo.png 330w, http:\/\/unseenreality.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Accidentally-on-purpose-photo-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> In the still, silent shadow of night, <br> the porch swing waits&nbsp;<br> For light to ease its way across the field\u2026<br> For him to come with a pillow for his old bones, <br> And his first cup of coffee.<br> <br> <br> <br> He sits and fidgets into comfort. <br> Faint light reveals clouds squatting on the field.<br> The tree bank, magnified by suspended moisture, might be mountains.<br> &nbsp;<br> Deeper than absence of motion,<br> Immobilized serenity stills his body. <br> Peace prevails, at last.<br> &nbsp;<br> In the silence, a sweet flow of love for the land seeps through him.<br> Slowly, episodes from his long life rise into consciousness. <br> He smiles. Cows milked. Fields ploughed. Hay baled. Babies raised.<br> Good Life.<br> &nbsp;<br> He wonders if he is part of the land, <br> Or if the land is part of him.<br> Or if there is any difference.<br> &nbsp;<br> &nbsp;<br> His feet push the swing of their own accord.<br> He moves inches forward, into the air, <br> Then backward, into the air.<br> A self-created breeze, an illusion of moving air <br> That\u2019s not of the air, <br> Slides back and forth across his skin. <br> &nbsp;<br> He wonders if he\u2019s pushing a hole into the stable air, <br> And if the air even notices filling in behind,<br> As if he\u2019d never been there.<br> <br> He laughs at himself and cuts off his first plug of chewing tobacco.<br> \u201cNonsense. &nbsp;An old man&#8217;s wanderings.\u201d<br> <br> As he chews his familiar companion, he realizes <br> He kinda\u2019 likes the idea that when he\u2019s gone <br> The hole he leaves will fill in behind him, <br> As if he\u2019d never been there.&nbsp;<br> <br> He kinda\u2019 likes thinking that his life has been making holes in the earth,<br> And holes in the air, that filled in behind him,<br> Leaving nothing after, and everything ahead.<br> <br> It seemed clean that way, pure\u2014his life an episode for his soul alone.<br> &nbsp;<br> &nbsp;<br> &nbsp;<br> Sunlight began in earnest, stirring the air, <br> Turning the cool into damp,<br> Soon to become oppressive heat.&nbsp;<br> &nbsp;<br> That&#8217;s when people, dressed in black, began to arrive. <br> Scowling, tough men, skin turned to hide by years of weather.<br> Ladies, sniffling into hankies, <br> hugging each other\u2019s sorrow to their breasts.<br> <br> <br> <br> He let go a stream of tobacco juice with uncanny accuracy. <br> Time to go. <br> Time to let the air fill in the hole behind him.&nbsp;<br> <br> <br> <br> Then he noticed big brown eyes and bright red dress.<br> A pregnant great-granddaughter, <br> Staring at him.&nbsp;<br> &nbsp;<br> He had held her close and rocked her to sleep many times, <br> But that hole had been filled, <br> And now she was almost a mother.<br> <br> He nodded.&nbsp;<br> She smiled and nodded in return.<br> <br> The porch swing came to a gentle stop, <br> And the air filled in the holes.<br> <br> <br> 07\/18\/18<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br> &nbsp; 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