Enga mellom fjella

The empty vessel

The empty vessel

Empty the vessel.
Set it out to dry.
This desert land bears scars of glacial flood,
the scourge of volcanic blasts that wrack it time after time.
Its brown fades beige when seen through mist,
this gray blanket that does little to quench its thirst
as sagebrush frosts and glistens.
What humans that dare to call this wasteland home
do so in a hush,
their presence deemed ephemeral
as car lots rusts and roads, mere wrinkles,
wait to be smoothed again
come fiery ash and the flash of fearsome flood.
The empty vessel, once set out to dry,
awaits to be filled, recycled.

© 2008 Kåre Enga [165.358] 2008-11-28

"Emptying the vessel" was the prompt. The landscape of Eastern Washington the inspiration.

ME:

windac made an interesting observation in my last blog entry. She was puzzled by how my interest in football fit in with the rest of my interests. It does give me pause to think further and deeper.

I am best described as eclectic and eccentric. My tastes are varied. I am a bread-and-milk type of guy, but I love weird foods. Give me a cheese or fruit no one else has heard of ... I'll try it. Same with languages, religions, customs. True, I prefer to observe rather than participate. Same with people. Odd folks tend to be drawn to me ... as are dogs (I'm a cat person) and teenagers (argh! ).

So ... hanging around with 'normal' salt-of-the-earth people really helps me stay grounded and keeps me from becoming snobbish or arrogant. It comes naturally to me though and fits into my comfort zone. I have learned much from people who are very different from me.

Oddly, I don't do as well among the educated and literary folk. I feel left out of their cliques. And, truth-be-told, I am awkward in their presence.

So, I collect dreams, natural images, real people and pet every pet that lets me. Then ... I write about them .

Today: reading Midnight . Went shopping; bought food. Found neat stuff abandoned by a dumpster. Coffee at Bernice's.

PHOTO:

Taken last year at this time. Mt. Sentinel is brown and green not white so far this year.



Montana: 32.8º at 22:28.

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