the beautiful silence

Dreaming With The Television On.    (a haibun)

Nodding off while watching television, I dream that I am in an old European train station, perhaps Vienna or Prague, I don't know exactly where. The dream is in black and white, and has a film noir look to it. I can't find you, or read the train schedule, and looking down I realize I only have one ticket. I feel sick down deep in my stomach as I watch the train depart without me.

The night train, lonely

is the sound, steel wheels on rails -

full moon overhead.

james lee jobe

Paris..... Texas

silence at dawn    silence at dusk 

the moon    slippery as an eel 

is chased by the sun 

chased all around the sky 

here on the surface of the planet 

we watch and raise our arms to the light 

pretending that we know god 

there is no god but the light is beautiful 

and the silence is beautiful too

james lee jobe

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