Enigma: The Sunday Whirl

How do you solve an enigma?

The Sunday Whirl blog invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “wordle’s” 12 word.

This week’s words are:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Enigma

Enigma:
No hurling spasmic burst
of rapid light
to show the way, no resounding proof
of what is, no soundness of
mind,
no logic of
thought,
no rare insight,
only a clenched
jaw, a rustle
of hope, an insistent
wish to know
answers which
seemed to come
only in waves, and
only then
through a
certain type
of
spacious-
      ness.

Randy Mazie

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