January 2012
17 posts
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December 2011
11 posts
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
4 posts
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September 2011
6 posts
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Reunion
We fumble towards each other, old friends, past enemies: diminished, awkward, unfortunate. Wrong turns, afflictions and addictions have aged us, crease-cheeked and bent, shuffling uncertainly, clothes worn and ill-fitting, thrift-shop threadbare, baggy knees and thumb-holed sleeves. We seek out those we have ill-treated, look into hollow eyes, grasp their bony shoulders, haltingly ask for and...
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August 2011
5 posts
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July 2011
2 posts
Silence
I have been (temporarily) living alone for ten days now. At home, I don’t speak, there’s no music, no TV. I start to listen to a podcast or a radio show, but the incessant talking repels me. The loudest sounds are the crackling fire and dinner in the oven.
Silence is space for thinking.
June 2011
9 posts