Emptiness

by | Nov 22, 2011 | Poetry

It appears the mind also

Abhors a vacuum—

Driving across Kansas

For example, mine scouts

The landscape and counts

Fence posts and sorrows,

Noting how the little

Birds rise from the dust

For just a moment, then

At once, settle down again.

 

 

 

 

 

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About The Author

George Ovitt

George Ovitt lives with his wife and daughters in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he teaches high school history, plays blues guitar, and writes poems and stories. He is the author of The Restoration of Perfection (Rutgers Univ. Press). He was moved to write “Fiction and Empathy” by the death of David Foster Wallace, a writer who, in Ovitt’s view, did a great deal to reestablish the Jamesian connection between fiction and compassion.