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The Fog of My Everyday

1/21/2013

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This week's otherworldly world view
I've been thinking about fog.

We've been living in it for five days now, the mercury hovering—28, 31, 29, 32, 30, night, day, no higher, no lower. Fog-frost on rooftops, fog-glaze on handrails, fog-moss in sidewalk cracks, fog-glass on maple twigs. The cold is a clap to the collarbone, knife in the waistband, ice to ankles. Floor to sky, the air is haze. Is blur. A view through gauze, through bandage. A mummy's view.


I've been thinking about fog. How delicious it is in a movie, the seat back high, armrests close. Silent and shadowless. Hovering, diffuse. White and something other than white. A character named Atmosphere.

I've been thinking about fog. How you can stand fixed in one place and still lose yourself to it. From whatever the direction, you step into the same. A cloud to be entered. A cloud to walk through. How wholly you must trust that there exists no ledge in there.

I've been thinking about fog. The Mississippi Delta kind of fog. Fog of steam. Fog of swamp. Fog like Saran, no way to breath through it. I've been thinking

about fog. Fog of mulch. Of decay. Fog of landfill. Fog of roadkill. I've been

thinking about fog. Fog of shower glass. Of breath on windowpane.

Of love in the back seat of a car. I've

been thinking about fog


I've been thinking

I've been
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Serifina
1/21/2013 08:42:52 am

C'est ça. Moi aussi, je pense, pendant ces jours gris, du brouillard, et
comme il est un des mots qui nous envoie à la recherche
des images nombreuses et variées.

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