TRAIL MIX
small things found on the path
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Recoil
3.10 pm: the quivering light and warmth cry out for touch, but your blurred, sweaty hands recoil in shock, touch nothing.
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Like new
12.00 noon: clusters of unfurling bright green leaves make patterns on an even brighter blue - the whole sky like a crisp, new printed cotton curtain.
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Drunken
8 am: the wild wind advances, noisy and unguided, kicking over all loose objects in its drunken path.
Monday, 15 April 2013
Friday, 12 April 2013
Stretched
8.05 am: the forecast says cloudy with rain, hail, thunder, and snow in the north - time and tolerance stretched by too many weathers.
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Jamaican
12.50 pm: rice 'n peas and thick brown gungy stuff - Jamaican comfort food is sunshine in the belly on a cold day.
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Blurring
11.45 am: through the blurring drizzle, a frail young woman approaches, clutching a small baby to her breast - oh no, it's a large loaf of bread.
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