The sky is fuzzy...so light right over this town. Like innumerable gulps of milk chugged upwards, dispersed in a fraction of sunlight - why is the sky bright over me? A being with cherries on its eyes and frosting round the mouth...there is no way out, the dense suffocating fumes encroaching with the smell of lilacs.  Sweet surrender.  A prozac- ( Read more... )

Tuesday I leave for Prague.  I need to decide if I am taking my laptop along or not. My mother who is in Aylmer, Ontario, right now, said that laptops should be considered luxuries as there are internet cafes.

There is so much packing to do and I am tired. I walked 3 hours today, in the wet fields. Also I need to clean the house because Valentina ( Read more... )

 I was up writing until 5:40 a.m. last night and now my words have been upchucked and I am drained ( Read more... )

My red nails flaked. The power of colour faded.  
I left red dust across town today.  On the bus, on the escalator - sprinkled along bookshelves, flicked over enquiry counters, and finally crumbled into my greasy hair when I sat in a corner, alone.  
Power faded, distributed gently, subtly, over my body with the nurturing weakness of a lost baby's ( Read more... )

some of my 'look-ups' for this morning.

undulant: undulating; wavelike in motion or pattern: an undulant edge. 
paradigm: a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, esp. the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. 
portentousness: ominously significant or indicative: a portentous defeat. (love it!)
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