Calmness without winds

Usage examples of windlessness.

Leaning against the gate, tak­ing the hard iron into his palms as he might caress a woman’s breasts he tries to look into the trees, tries to reach through the gates and merge with their stately, unmoving corporeality in the strange windlessness but the gate does not shift under his hands, his aspect does not quicken or change.

The windlessness and general stillness, contrary to all experience, seemed to make the cold bite deeper.

Before lying down he undid the turban and combed his hair out and then tied it up into a topknot and lay back, saw the light on the skin of the tent slowly disperse, his eyes holding onto the last blue of light, hearing the drop of wind into windlessness and then hearing the swerve of the hawks as their wings thudded.