I watch – a somber darkening sky only February can lay claim to, beyond the new high-rises, faded forever rooftops of the city passed by as the El clacks ahead further north. I watch: people and their soft-soled shoes and bags, phones, dreamstate eyes looking at nothing as real as the opening and closing ofContinue reading ““Thus, Life is Lived””
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The Adventures of Guille and Belinda
Link: The Adventures of Guille and Belinda Enchanting collection of photos from the New Yorker… I like this one especially…”Immaculate Conception” When you are a child, you can become anything you want. You have this sparkle about you — I think of the Dust in Pullman’s The Golden Compass. And when you finally grow up, yourContinue reading “The Adventures of Guille and Belinda”
Absence
The same script each time you attempt to write it. Setting: morning, in bedand not having yet awakened, the sound of distress from the tragedyyour body has created and believes,with such conviction, making its way out of your throat. Never quite arriving, caughtby the mouth. Cheeks still dry. Something like a well, pushingthe one prolongedContinue reading “Absence”