SUBJECT
Antonia was running. Johan chased her.
DEVELOPMENT
- Antonia was running along a dried out riverbed. She ran over stones of every size and shape, slipping on drifts of pebbles, skipping rocks, and clambering boulders. Johan trailed her from the air, his eyes running over these stones, and pebbles, and rocks, and boulders.
- As Antonia was running, she realised it had always been thus; she ran, Johan chased. Along pried out streams of consciousness, over stories of every size and form, tripping on shifts of meaning, the ticking clocks, the clamouring elders.
RECAPITULATION
Every time he was just about to catch her, they began again. But roles had been reversed. Johan ruined, Antonia chaste. He would never catch her. She would be forever alone. Tired out. With only reams of stories left, sifted for meaning, stammering, elderly. Antonia was running away from herself. And Johan chased her there.
Photo Source: coactivate.org
© 2011 Simon Kearns
[...] “Fugue No. 1” by Simon Kearns – Chased love. Chaste love. Let-yourself-be-caught love. Love as a song, a movement. Love leaping through air and laughing. A story, their story, ours. Call and answer. Is this love? Exhausted love, from running. Love is away (I would follow you). There is no away. [...]