“Street Level” by: rob kistner © 2004
with my mind’s eye
watch the flow of people
the shuffle of feet
with their different sounds
according to their shoes
the divergent realities
through which truth stumbles frayed
to move in the world
rough as rope
knotted as every quivered promise
rob kistner © 2019
“rough as rope
knotted as every quivered promise”
Just beautiful, Rob.
Thank you De.
Now that’s what I’m talking about…pure “Rob”. A taunt existential slice of life. I love the lines /frayed, to move in the world rough as rope/. Exciting word-smithing.
Thank you bros! De’s personal contribution to this prompt tripped my abstract switch and I dug into my archives of “phrases past” and pulled out “rough as rope” — thence off I went through the looking glass…
Nice lines about truth: “the divergent realities
through which truth stumbles frayed”
Everybody seems to have their own these days Frank — stretched and tattered.
I love the perspective, Rob, the ‘different sounds according to their shoes’, and frayed truth in a world ‘rough as rope / knotted as every quivered promise’.
In todays’s world truth is frayed Kim, and certainly rough as rope…
Love the details in the difference between the feet… I can almost see you closing your eyes, listening to their music
Shoes tell one a great deal about the wearer Björn — if one but looks and listens.
a LOT can tell us about shoes… about the people wearing them. Enjoyed this.
You can tell everything about the person from the shoes, the brand, the shape and condition. How fast they are walking, are the shoes shined, have they joined similar shoes. You can read the world in the shoes — and the sound they make walking. Every thing in thrbsj