Elan Mudrow
Smidgens
Night Orientation
Her house is sunshine, a bright glow. The wind can only brush against her windows, slip away into daylight. She warms her hands against the walls and that heat wears her palms soft. She touches you and you feel it beneath your skin.
Below her house, there’s a street. Each day cars flood its lanes. Their sound seeps through cracks. It dims the house slightly. So, she becomes the moon, but doesn’t know the reason she illuminates. She orbits from room to room.
Little creatures look up to her and smile, purr if they can, nibble on her light. She pets them with hot fingers. But they think she is threadlike, a filament, a passage of current. Slowly, she becomes afraid of moths.
She appears in any room, even rooms they never see. They are frantic, almost as frightened as she. She applies duct tape to the screens of the windows. They eventually find their way in.
When they die, they become powder, dust, which is actually scales diffracting light. Still, they want lucid explanations, about light. Her hands remain torrid.
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This resonates so, so much.
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Great work. Eloquently unstructured structure carrying lightly touching but threatening metaphors.
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Mystical creature yet down-to-earth in her imagination.
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lovely and brilliant.
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I have a clear visual picture, this resonated.
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This is brilliant! 🖤
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Yes, thanks so much!
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A wonderful write. I really like how it is filled with such mystery and yet, even with questions, she remains. Beautiful!
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I love it
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