84- "show, don't tell"

"show, don't tell," is the mantra all
creative writing teachers have passed on to me.
do not use your words as words, use them
as brushstrokes in a painting,
cues in a script for a play, a tv show, a movie,
images in a picture snapped at 3 pm on a
Thursday afternoon, the golden sunlight
just hitting the dust in the air to create
a beam of illumination. but sometimes the words
we say, their enunciated syllables pulsing through
the eardrum, sometimes those can be
just enough. those can be as powerful as the
pictures they paint, each letter holding
a brush of a different color.