Inches away is a landscape I can almost touch -

islets of wisp, an ocean of the ancientest blue.

No line fractionates water from air;

all elements transmute to light.

Light flows like a river

through the bird's glassy eye

and into its belly

where I perch,

ready to dip and emerge

winged,

and whole again.

I was a firebird

born of air and earth's ( Read more... )

It was the edifice of a girl I'd never met
that first cast my mind into swirling shadow. Not
The girl herself -- poor guileless creature -- there
you were wrong; but neither was it quite,
as I grappled to understand from snatches of light
falling in places, a brow, an ear, a foot --
this organism I'd conjured and called
your relationship with her.

How ( Read more... )

This post is mostly about the people whose bubbles have and floated into my own and infused the summer with such a gentle swilling riot of colour. The random conversations, jokes, smiles-unthinkingly I breathe them in and make a temporary home. Years later, when the German summer of 2012 will be to my mind but a shimmery haze, these people, their ( Read more... )

I had wanted to take a walk into the town centre with my netbook swinging in its sleeve by my side. All the shops would be closed except perhaps the local pub, but even that would only come to life when the evening match comes on. I would sit cross-legged on a bench in the empty Sunday square, typing in a slight breeze. The church bell would chime ( Read more... )

it's so easy to be callous, but the things you say have a way of echoing in your ears long afterwards. 
i dislike how this place has become a vent for these yin thoughts. 
i want to draw, to sing, to write..but creativity cannot conjure remote cheer..and the scrap of sun and sky from my window isn't enough to buoy a grey mood
maybe i'll go out ( Read more... )

It's interesting how more than half the things I've learnt about human relationships (in the most general sense) these two years, I've learnt second-hand, by sitting at the periphery and looking on. Because nothing very interesting ever happens with me, haha. I have been told that I am just not around most of the time, whatever that means..it calls ( Read more... )