Weekly Challenges
Deadline
Listen to all of the sounds around you right now. Maybe there are only a few, or maybe there are many. Write the sounds down and what you notice about them. Is there a story in these different noises? [Image by Ibrahim Ibrahim, YWP Archive]
The silence of 11 pm
combined with the clicking of my keyboard,
rushed typing, like i
have somewhere to be.
fingers lightly tapping across
the keys when
I hear the tick of a clock letting me know every second I am wasting as I scroll through my phone,
the slide of my finger against the screen,
the tap of my thumb as I message someone back,
artificial noise.