Dilation Exercise 67

Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to go to work on it. If the artwork inspires an idea, please use the comment feature to tell us something about it. Need a further explanation? Go to Imagination Workout—The Dilation Exercises.

The lure of the big city was irresistible, but I knew I’d have to become tougher if I were going to go there and make something of my life.

If I survived while others were chewed up and spit out, it would be because I was boney and the texture of my flesh was undesirable.

Artwork: “City Fishing” copyright © 2000 Alan M. Clark. Cover art for CITY FISHING, by Steve Rasnic Tem, published by Silver Salamander Press.

Captions are original to this post and have nothing to do with the literary project with which the artwork first appeared.

—Alan M. Clark
Eugene, Oregon