the po~et 29 (comprehensive study)

The notes come on brown parchment paper and require acute comprehensive navigational skills to interpret--and a few days to ponder. She removes the last one from its hiding place and imagines the look on Paul's face when he wrote it. Who knows how the thoughts began or where they will end. Sometimes they change with every sentence and then you just hang on for the ride. He does leave clues about himself tucked in between, but you have to have followed him for awhile to discover them. Or have seen him in person read his words out loud. There's a way when he allows himself to get lost inside the words that his body openly responds to his own cleverness. Jack discovered this by accident, well it was intentional, but she was surprised at what she saw. The vision plays back to her from time to time. Each time with a different reaction--or at least a different position. The results are the same. The uncovered up close version is better. She listens to his words, her mind hides them, digesting what they could mean to her. She hides the note as if to make a wish.