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Looking Up

September 11, 2013
By baileysul PLATINUM, Guilford, Connecticut
baileysul PLATINUM, Guilford, Connecticut
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Favorite Quote:
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." -Ernest Hemingway


The sea water swelled
as our eyes were
glued to the
ground like the straight
focused gaze of
a marble-set eye.
“It's curious,” she
says, interrupting moments
of silence, picking up
a piece of sea
glass, feeling
its edges, listening
to its story, but eventually
letting it go to be
finished and re-found, again
and again, and I finally
looked up, and found it
curious that we had walked
so far without realizing,
without looking ahead.


The author's comments:
My friends and I looked for sea glass in the mist for 2 solid hours one day, in almost complete silence. We all seemed to be in deep thought, in deep conversation with ourselves.

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