They say it’s peripheral madness,
those shades,
those shadows
I see out of the corner of my eye.
But they are wrong;
if they stopped tut-tutting,
shaking their heads and nodding,
they too would see
wraiths creep along walls.
Too busy with their actualities to see
the realities that float beside them.
That movement you only catch the tracer of.
Parallelograms.
There is no peripheral madness;
only sideways sanity.
© Lorraine
For mlmm writing prompt 202: it’s all in the title
April 7, 2017 at 2:06 pm
Wonderful description of this picture.
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April 3, 2017 at 12:59 am
Sideways sanity just like the parrellogram’s lost memory of thinking it was square
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April 3, 2017 at 7:45 am
Exactly! How is your wife feeling under your nursing care?
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April 3, 2017 at 3:00 pm
I have survived two days… So she is doing better. I’m experienced enough to know her reach and I’m sure I can outrun her, so nursing had been successful. Her leg is pretty swollen but she says it’s better
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April 2, 2017 at 10:44 pm
Sideways sanity….I like that.
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April 2, 2017 at 10:13 pm
I do like that notion of sideways madness, just a step to the right as they say…..great response Lorraine..
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April 3, 2017 at 7:53 am
Exactly — right step. No madness to the left.
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