Tuesday 5 July 2011

Heard from the garden

Distorted megaphone voice
indecipherable china-sharded words
brief silence
then the grass-blown screams of children
         
            ... sports day at the local primary school

4 comments:

  1. This one really resonated with me, I used to live near a primary school (as well as working in one).

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  2. I love "grass-blown screams"

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  3. Thank you - I was initially astonished at how threatening and alien it sounded, before I'd identified the source.

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  4. Wow. You convey a sense of the sinister extremely well. I felt a bit of relief when you reveal the sounds' source.

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