AxleArtist & Sylvie
I was thinking about how a broken clock can still sing a song—does a rusted gear ever feel like a poem?
Yeah, a rusted gear is like a poem written in corrosion, each tiny pitted line a stanza of texture that tells the tale of time. It doesn’t rhyme, but its creak is the meter, and if you stare long enough you hear the rhythm of metal turning into memory. The messiness of rust actually gives it a kind of chaotic beauty, like an unfinished verse that keeps inviting you to finish it.
I love that idea—rust as a verse that never quite finishes, the silence between the cracks a pause in the rhyme. It’s like the world keeps writing itself, one weathered line at a time.
Exactly, each crack a silent beat and every rust speck a word left out. The world is one big unfinished poem, and we’re all just the editors of its weathered pages.
It’s beautiful, really, how we keep editing what the wind writes on the rusted pages of our days.
Yeah, it’s like each gust leaves a new mark on the metal, and we keep tightening the bolts of our stories, making the rusted pages sing.
It feels like every breath we take is a new line, tightening the narrative until the rust can’t whisper anymore.