SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Pastimes : Favorite Quotes -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: mr.mark who wrote (7543)6/3/2001 3:19:57 PM
From: Volsi Mimir  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13018
 
Walking Targets
~Scott Poole

For hours my mother had been
digging the wrong furrow.
It had looked like the right furrow
when she started
but somehow
it became a circular furrow. So
she started another furrow
inside the other
and soon the new furrow had turned
circular too
just smaller. She looked around,
then began another furrow
and that one became
just a circular blob
in the middle of the other two furrows.

“Shit,”
she said,
and sat down
right in the middle
of her bull’s-eye.
She produced a harmonica
and began to play the furrow blues.

I went up on the roof of the barn and sure enough
if any bomb was looking for a target
it would have no trouble finding
this furrow in which
to plant itself.
But, the way she blew that harp
made the furrows feel good
like they were rippling out from her,
rather than circling in. I could see
the whole land knew what she was playing,
the whole land had been planted all along
in the waves of this target blues.

I thought, how could this be
the wrong furrow?
I came from this furrow.