Friends at the Table

Bluff City 48: Give Way to Open Sky Pt. 4

Added 2023-07-31 23:05:10 +0000 UTC

I am making eye contact with myself in the mirror. Look at you. Look at you, kid. You did so good. I know you did. Couldn’t have done anything else but that.

Your face is not my face. We look nothing alike. So I’m making eye contact with myself and trying to see you there.

It was a long day. How was yours? Maybe it doesn’t work like that. Maybe it’s morning there, and you haven’t started yet. Up you get, kid. Up and at ‘em.

Up and at ‘em, kid. In the morning the wind blows east, skein of geese above the old power station. Maybe it’s blowing west for you. Cattails around the bones of the pump building.

I am making eye contact with myself and my peripheral vision fades down to a point. Pink square of the window behind me. What is it the old men say about mirrors and windows?

“One was invented at the dawn of the week in triumph and accolade, but as the next days passed, in heat and frustration, they found it was not what they had meant to make. Not what they had meant to make at all. So, it followed that by the time the week had ended, they had created the other. And then they were done.”

Featuring: Austin Walker, Ali Acampora, Jack de Quidt and Andrew Lee Swan

Opening Music & Description by Jack de Quidt

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