Assignment: use the following random words in a piece of writing.
Market. Feat or feet. Cow clock
Jostle cheat smile loving
My result;
Look Rock on an October Evening
My friend and I walk up the concrete steps
to the terraced overlook
Scuffling dry leaves with our feet.
We wait while a family jostles into position
for the obligatory portrait
with mountain background.
We lean on the rail looking out.
A woman, cigarette dangling, takes many photographs.
I say, "I'm not much of a photographer."
He says, smiling, and reading my mind,
"I'd rather enjoy the moment,
Look with my eyes, feel with my skin,
Taste and smell.
When you worry about getting the shot with the camera,
You cheat yourself of much of the experience.
I'd rather soak it all in
And later write a poem."
Forest green, gray green, moss green, olive green, chartreuse.
How many greens there are
In the evening light, late in the season.
Some autumn greens revert to the yellow greens of early spring
Everything fading.
While other greens darken with age.
A road runs below us. We hear voices from the valley,
Men, and a cow lowing.
Cars.
A rooster crows to his own, slightly skewed, clock.
Wildness beyond, but a narrow strip
Of human influence along the bottom.
A small break in in the mostly cloudy sky
Opens up to let a curtain of misty sunlight
Stream across the valley
Markedly dividing the near, clear world
From the world behind the veil
Blurry, imprecise
Soft, tender
Do faeries dance behind that veil?
A sunbeam shines a spotlight at curtain's edge.
As wind pushes the open spot across the sky,
First a valley, then a nob,
then another valley
Is lovingly caressed by the light,
As it holds the land, praises it,
Then moves on to embrace the next hill.
Drg 10/2014
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