Showing posts with label quiet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quiet. Show all posts

May 15, 2011

Reflection

The air was so quiet
he could hear
the broken
pieces of the sun
knocking the water.

— Flannery O'Connor, "The River"

October 11, 2010

Still

The quiet in the house
after lunch was
of such density
that it nearly
stopped the clocks.

— Jonathan Franzen, "The Corrections"