Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop
Denise is the host.
The prompt word:
BOOKMARK
The post Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six] first appeared on the Wakefield Doctrine.The bandstand at the Six Sentence Café & Bistro on this particular Thursday evening was a dim square surrounded on all but one side by round tables embedded in smoke-cirrus clouds, marked with sporadic flashes of cigarette lighters. The center of the stage was occupied by a microphone atop a chrome diaphysis and the tall, thin man; the sole light was an invisible sun that created a three-quarters profile penumbra, skewed towards the audience.
“Bookmarks”
the voice of the man spread into the dark club with a weightless density, descending on the faceless audience like waves on a shoreline; some obliterated by water-resistant rocks, much of it absorbed by the shifting sand, all, eventually returning to the source.
“Our lives are a book with chapters;
many a bookmark for the long and epic, or single title page, brief and pure, providing no details while accepting no limitations.
We write our sins and failures in ink;
we note, in the margins, our dreams and hopes in pencil.
The completed volume itself is an artifact of eternity;
reviews and accolades incomplete, as the final two words are invisible to the author.”