Vacancy

A  L  O  H  A !

“For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.”

                                      Wordsworth

"All my life, 

as down an abyss 

without a bottom. 

I have been pouring 

van loads of information 

into that vacancy 

of oblivion 

I call my mind." 

                                Logan Pearsall Smith 

“We become aware of the void as we fill it.” 
 Antonio Porchia

" Then, 
from the black storm 
through which we seem
 to have passed. . . 
 we emerge prostrate, 
without a thought, 
a we that is void 
of content.” 
 Marcel Proust

“Youth always tries 

to fill the void, 

an old man learns

 to live with it.” 

        Mark Z. Danielewski

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If you put

your ear to mine

you'll hear the ocean;

I'm hollow

but fine.

Ever feel vacant

in a not-bad way?

Is this

what they call

"Re - lax - ation"

?

Wandering-Pondering,

                                           cloudia