the mobile rang
in an empty carriage -
nobody heard
About this Rooku
There’s nothing more annoying or ubiquitous than people talking on mobile phones on trains. Yet the idea of a lost phone ringing unheard has a kind of chilling, plaintive quality to it. I was also playing with the old philosophical question, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
About Shelley O'Reilly
Originally from Tasmania, I'm currently an English/Literature teacher, and member of the Word Addicts writing and performance group. I write poems, short stories, make zines, and I'm working on a series of detective novels called the Maud Gold Mysteries. Email: shelleyoreilly@yahoo.com.au
