Thursday, November 29, 2012

Three Metaphors For Shadow Watch

I.
Shadow Watch is a fist.
Four fingers and a thumb, squinched up tight and cocked for quick release.
It won't lay you flat out, if you're a seasoned opponent: Your stagger backwards is its prize, and your surprised eyes.

II.
Shadow Watch is a shadow play of an action movie.
Nineteen scenes acted out in slices of time. The motions are the thing, not their meaning:
Invisible bullets. A crumpling figure. A sidle to the left, and a gun raised coolly to the shoulder.

III.
Shadow Watch is the joy of competence.
Skill stacked on skill; like bodies, dropped with efficiency, three wide and three deep.
These six keys tumbling six hundred locks, first noisily, and bloody, by the end are quiet and clean.

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