I Am Waiting #1

Author’s note: This piece combines (a) a work of photography-based digital art and (b) a parallel meditation in the form of imaginative prose.

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You said you would be back, and I long for it. So I wait. They said you would come in the same way as you came before. So I wait here, where people arrive from the air.

You could not say, did not know, when you would return. So I wait long hours that blend one into another. Days. Years. I am learning to wait.

And watch. I watch the lights. The light. I wish to see the light: Traces of life streaming through the air. Indelibly etched trails that remain long after a light-bearer has passed.

How very long it takes to absorb the light. And I wait for your light-stream and your arrival and the burst of light at your landfall.

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