Saturday, December 16, 2017

Carmex to car

As I walked that morning, I remembered,
during a moment of deep meditative thought,
that I needed to replace the Carmex in my glovebox.
So I took out the phone from my right front pants pocket
and typed into the 'notes' icon;
"Carmex to car".

I was amused how those three words had come from me
so easily
onto that phone application,
and tried to fathom other instances when words like them
could be obtained with such effortlessness.
They were just simple instructions,
but I was disappointed by my thinking too much about them.


Thursday, December 7, 2017

Words and sentences

With my held tilted up, I see the sky, and think suddenly of the richness and depth of words, momentarily feeling that I can grasp the infinite.
Yet when considering both sky and words, only the latter seem even the least bit pliable.

I am ashamed that I find the ability to form things appealing
a person that professes to desire the infinite and the unnameable!

And even though I don't consider it possible to bend the world around me into squares or rectangles
(or maneuver it into a shape where if twists back onto itself),
this feat seems entirely manageable with sentences.
I need only imagine it doing so,
and find it unnecessary to do anything but describe it.