Flash Friday: Fable of the Man by the Water

A man stops and stares at the water ... the poet Craig Morgan Teicher reflects on the experience of looking for something in this fragment of fiction

By Craig Morgan Teicher for Flash Fridays by Tin House, part of the Guardian Books Network

A man stops and stares at the water for a long time, looking for something. A while later, he walks away.

You see him from a distance. You are sitting, watching, you realize, the man watching the water. Did he find what he was looking for? You decide to approach the water to see if you can find it too, some meaning perhaps, some small vision.

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