Day 23: Blow Out

Blow out
Blow up
Blow away
Blow it off
Blow hard

Invisible, powerful, all-encompassing
Ordinary life-
sustatining air:
Destruction
Amazement
Devastation
Astonishment

Wind
Weather
Breath

Swirling in a tornado
Flooding in a hurricane
Blanketing the coast with fog

Words
Spoken words
No more than air
Breath inhaled
Shaken
Molded
Expelled

With the force of exhalation
Periodic waves
Become sound
Entering the ears
Percussing through membrane, bone and perilymph
Translated into electrical impulses
Breath received:
Transformed into fluid lines of dialogue, transferring information, emotion.

Destruction
Amazement
Devastation
Astonishment

Blow bubbles
Blow dry
Blow out the candles
As we sing
Exhaling into the dark.