Literary Creations in English: August 2008

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Seen in a Montreal Park

I drive by this park every day.

Yet,
Today is different,
even when it is just a hot, lazy summery day.

There is a pretty young woman sitting in the tree shade,
leaning against its trunk.
Today.

Her dress creeping upwards,
Her lips barely quivering,
She is reading a book of poems,
Today.

She is reading one specific poem
Today.

This one. The one I am writing right now.
The one you are reading as I write.
Today.

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The "Single Entry Diary", was written during a period of intense personal emotional upheavals. It attempts to describe the slow and gradual slippage into a comatose state, that might be the precursor of a full clinical death. The reader cannot tell the real cause of what is happening to the subject, it could be an attempt at suicide, a disease, clinical depression, a meditative state or even a mental experiment. The ultimate metaphor of losing the physical senses as opposed to losing one's senses (as in one's mind), is always omnipresent in the piece.

When writing, I assumed that the last part to go would be self-consciousness. This is not necessarily true from a clinical perspective. However, assuming it were true, I tried to imagine a conscious being who is conscious of the losses of his senses.

The fictional writer of the diary does not know who will read his work. The reader could be someone very close, like his lover, or a complete stranger. With the last line, the departer attempts to connect with his reader for a last time.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Seen in a Montreal Park

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