Evening Talk

Off the record.

flock of birds flying above the mountain during sunset

Generosities of language emerge as dusk settles, erupting in dialects more prone to dismissing the manners of a given day. The shock of voices startled into screams, and the lingering pause that attends each, an unofficial record of anguish––which is, in its raw form, consistently resistant to official record.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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