Sometimes Your Ears Have Eyes

Week 22

Sometimes Your Ears Have Eyes

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            1.       There are some things in life we just put up with. They

                       may annoy but not enough.

            2.       Name a sound that sets your teeth on edge. How does it  

                       affect your body?

            3.       It’s surprising how much we can sense by tone and pace

                       when we can’t truly make out what’s being said.

            4.       Lean into a conversation—what, not who, is talking?

            5.       Why is it that the question she asked me on the subway

                       sticks with me?

            6.       Why don’t tirades work?

            7.       How is it that flowers like simple daffodils, bound with a

                       rubber band, deliver a kiss with just a handoff?

Overheard

Sounds from the TV

in the other room—

I can’t make out the words

and don’t want to,

but here they are,

anyway, abrasive

as coarse wool.

Oh, those voices

so pitched and fervent?

This is the soft medium,

after all, because

unlike radio, the

harsh one, we

have the picture—

the one worth

a thousand words.

At the completion of

the current news spot,

told at its urgent,

stentorian best,

I again won’t

make out the words,

but the signoff cadence

will be unmistakable:

This is Russ Jones reporting

for Albatross News

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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