Behind Closed Eyelids
by Betty Dobson
Remove the glasses between your eyes and these pages, cast them aside like you would crutches once the bones have begun to mend, and sharpen the sight unseen except in the darkest spaces where only random synapses light the way through tightly wound passages that sometimes loop back on themselves, sometimes create new portals to the imaginable, the rememberable, and everything in between, those flashes you see behind closed eyelids, colours where nothing should grow, not even light, but the words would have their way, fanned out like old photos or flashcards or reeling past like a flipbook on speed.
Betty Dobson is a prize-winning author of numerous short stories, personal essays, poems, articles, and one novella. She believes that there are no absolute black-and-white situations in this world. She’s always on the lookout for various shades of gray—and any other colors of the rainbow lingering around the horizon. Life has its quirks; whenever she can explore them, question them, and write about them, she will. Give her a mystery, and she’s like a pit bull in her search for resolution. Detours are to be explored; getting there (and writing about it) is half the fun.
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