Post AaPOOd4ehu93tUOGDQ by scott_bot@hcommons.social
 (DIR) More posts by scott_bot@hcommons.social
 (DIR) Post #AaPOObcc6g7VOEGLrs by scott_bot@hcommons.social
       2023-09-29T01:19:02Z
       
       1 likes, 0 repeats
       
       I don't know who needs to hear this but [the disconcerting silence you notice when a low machine hum you didn't notice suddenly goes quiet]
       
 (DIR) Post #AaPOOd4ehu93tUOGDQ by scott_bot@hcommons.social
       2023-09-29T11:08:19Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       ☝️"‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,   Knocking on the moonlit door;[...]But only a host of phantom listeners   That dwelt in the lone house thenStood listening in the quiet of the moonlight   To that voice from the world of men:Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,   That goes down to the empty hall,Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken   By the lonely Traveller’s call.And he felt in his heart their strangeness,   Their stillness answering his cry,While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,   'Neath the starred and leafy sky;[...]‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,   That I kept my word,’ he said.Never the least stir made the listeners,   Though every word he spakeFell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house   From the one man left awake:Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,   And the sound of iron on stone,And how the silence surged softly backward,   When the plunging hoofs were gone."--Walter de la Mare