Afterimages
Only quiet,
still visions,
emotional afterimages
of a once bustling historical form
known to have existed.
Evidence of old tradition is here,
but only one chapter can be viewed
of the book of its past,
all other chapters being
conspicuously absent,
abandonment’s factors not known.
There can be only so many
causes for its defeat,
which begs the question -
over the course of time
what took it from its short
endurance,
this once dynamic place,
with citizens living in such a
dynamic way,
with the continual rise of activity
evident in daily life,
and dropped it into its entropy,
then into the final stage of
collapse
leaving only this eerie forlorn
location,
a site filled with haunting
mystery,
relinquished by any who survived
and went in search of better
optics.
Linda Imbler
Linda Imbler is an
internationally published poet, an avid reader, classical guitar player, and a
practitioner of both Yoga and Tai Chi. In, addition, she helps her
husband, a Luthier, build acoustic guitars. She lives in Wichita, Kansas,
U.S.A. where she enjoys her 200-gallon saltwater reef tank wherein resides her
24 year old yellow tang. Linda’s poetry collections include eight
published paperbacks: Big Questions, Little Sleep First Edition, Big
Questions, Little Sleep Second Edition; Lost and Found; Red Is
The Sunrise; Bus Lights; Travel Sight; Spica’s Frequency;
Doubt and Truth; and A Mad Dance. Soma Publishing has
published her four e-book collections, The Sea’s Secret Song; Pairings,
a hybrid of short fiction and poetry; That Fifth Element; and Per
Quindecim. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be
found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com. Linda has
been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and six Best Of The Nets.