Archive for June, 2007

Cloud chasers

Life unfolds on this round­about. The driver is unsure of his exit, so as he explores the myriad options avail­able to him, curs­ing under his breath and becom­ing increas­ingly diz­zied by his own con­fu­sion, I turn inwards to the grass island at our centre. A man in an unne­ces­sar­ily thick winter over­coat sits slumped against […]

Clearing

Whis­per in my shell-like. Just close enough to hear, yet not close enough to feel breath. Then tell me. Tell me all and everything, even if it’s noth­ing. One after another after more and more still. Reel them off, unthink­ing. Open the encyc­lo­pae­dia you have always kept on that dusty shelf at the top of […]

Solstice

She tells me that today is the longest day. Tells me too as if it is a con­spir­at­orial secret, as if it would make me want to leap up and embrace her, kiss the child-like grin that places ripples of echoes of grins fur­ther up on her roun­ded cheeks. Wreathed in smiles. Please don’t stop […]

Random acts of stationery #19

Nothing here but clinker

Pick­ing through debris. Sift­ing detritus. Siev­ing and shak­ing the coal from the clinker, and then I’m back. An inward child sat cross-legged in the middle of the high-walled back yard. Regress­ing and regret­ting. Embra­cing the past for fear it might reach out and strangle if I don’t take its hands in mine. “Did I do well?” […]

Walking the ghost

I saw a ghost today. Just your aver­age com­mon­place, mundane, work­aday, run of the mill ghost, walk­ing through a throng of shop­pers in the hazily pol­luted urban sun­light of a summer’s after­noon. [I swear I would know that face any­where.] I don’t know where and how you are sup­posed to see such appar­i­tions. Films, literature […]

Random acts of stationery #18

Random acts of stationery #17

Web two point oh Christ almighty

Wanted: Social Affairs Man­ager to take day-to-day respons­ib­il­ity for main­ten­ance and upkeep of my Face­book, Twit­ter, Last.fm and Flickr accounts, ensur­ing that all are reg­u­larly updated with fre­quent and, above all, scin­til­lat­ing new con­tent to make the sub­ject appear greater than the sum of his rather unin­spir­ing parts. Exper­i­ence desir­able. Salary nego­ti­able. Bene­fits neg­li­gible. Apply […]