Trying to Write on a Page That Blinks Back

There are so many choice curse words I use sitting here...

Some days this place loosens at the seams.

Code shivers.

Pages falter mid-breath,

sentences step forward, hesitate,

then vanish as if staying

were an unreasonable request.

Comments slip through unseen cracks.

The screen flickers, forgets itself,

stutters like a tired mind at dusk,

caught between intention

and whatever comes after thought

when the light is thinning.

The site tries to speak

overshoots into nonsense,

flirts with surrealism,

wanders briefly into slapstick,

then freezes, embarrassed,

as though language itself

has misplaced its instructions.

Still we return.

Ink-stubborn. Word-hungry.

We come back the way weather does,

the way breath does,

the way hope does

even when it knows better.

We touch the keys carefully,

as if testing a pulse.

We coax the words through static,

through flicker and delay,

asking only that the sentence land,

that it hold its shape,

that it stay long enough

to remember why it came.

Let the line settle.

Let the thought rest its weight here.

Let the page, just this once,

hold.

Author's Note

I know I'm new-ish here, but has this site always been this damn glitchy? I, for the most part, like the site, the writers, and being able to read their work. But it took me three tries just to post one reply,..ugh...

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

Sadly it seems to happen more and more frequently these days. The site is a good site apart from the glitches. You need patience by the bucket load. I don’t always have that. You write well.

Chris

[Brandon Houser]

This made me laugh because half of what you described just happened to me.

[Thomas W Case]

I hear you. It can be glitchy. Good work.