n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.
I’m going to start Tumbling more. I promise.
A small boy sees hills
then he will make them mountains
he will have to climb.
If he can climb them
what will he have overcome
that he did not make?