Sunday 31 July 2011
Saturday 30 July 2011
Friday 29 July 2011
Thursday 28 July 2011
Wednesday 27 July 2011
Patterned
The abandoned freight container has become a work of art, its deep-blue panels patterned with layers of half erased graffiti and the peeling traces of fly-posting.
Tuesday 26 July 2011
Slender
Four slender white legs come flash, flashing on the grey road. Four dainty black shoes tap, tapping. At the edge of vision: green, amber, red.
Monday 25 July 2011
Insidious
Despite the soft, stippled sky, there's a small, insidious chill that makes the body stiffen. It's as if the cold is a worm within.
Sunday 24 July 2011
Painted
My painted plate: the white yoghurt runs into the burnished yellow of turmeric, the smooth surface broken by floating beads of channa dal.
Saturday 23 July 2011
Undignified
The men sitting opposite read the news on their phones. It's an undignified activity: two outsize, baggy children poking and peering at their tiny screens.
(I've been away for a week without internet access, but continued to write these every day)
(I've been away for a week without internet access, but continued to write these every day)
Friday 22 July 2011
Heightened
In the sculpture park, everything is sculpted by the eye, aesthetically heightened: tree, gate, sheep.
Thursday 21 July 2011
Rectangular
The big, rectangular window in the white gallery wall is a picture that dissolves and re-forms with the shifting angle of view.
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Tuesday 19 July 2011
Invisible
The heron is invisible – so still – until it unfolds wide, blue-grey wings and floats above the water.
Monday 18 July 2011
Wavering
The wavering reflections of tall windows in the dark canal conjure a fantasy of living in this elegant, haunted place.
Sunday 17 July 2011
Ragged
These ragged purple flowers that sprout against the old, red bricks must have bloomed here unseen when this was all dereliction.
Saturday 16 July 2011
Friday 15 July 2011
Muggy
Muggy heat, but it might be cold tomorrow. Noisy electric fan, but behind it is silence. Mounds of work, but no urgent deadlines. Floating anxiety.
Thursday 14 July 2011
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Sticky
The office pot-plant crouches miserably on the window-sill: a thick layer of sticky black dust coats its once shiny leaves.
(after writing this I washed it and talked nicely to it)
(after writing this I washed it and talked nicely to it)
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Noisy
Deserted office after hours, but noisy still: a tumult of voices funnelled upwards in the cleft between buildings and a roar of low-flying aircraft funnelled downwards.
Monday 11 July 2011
Grey
The man is all grey - hair, clothes, aura. He moves so slowly. Doesn't want to get to where he's going. Doesn't want to get to anywhere.
Sunday 10 July 2011
Cool
On a warm day the cool pleasure
of clothes holding skin less tightly,
skin holding flesh less tightly.
of clothes holding skin less tightly,
skin holding flesh less tightly.
Saturday 9 July 2011
Friday 8 July 2011
Red-black and blue-black
Cherry and blueberry
Red-black and blue-black
Shiny and velvetty
Bite one and suck one
Neither too sweet
Red-black and blue-black
Shiny and velvetty
Bite one and suck one
Neither too sweet
Thursday 7 July 2011
Wednesday 6 July 2011
Pink
The sun comes out. The thousands of old pink bricks in the wall opposite my window light up softly and emit their infinite gradations of rosy glow.
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Monday 4 July 2011
Floral
Back-to-back in the bus aisle, two floral cotton dresses, two flushed bare arms, swaying in the clammy heat - they could be a single, two-faced creature.
Sunday 3 July 2011
Oily
The deep, gentle, oily scent of lavender reaches over the low garden wall, clings to trailing fingers, fills the pale London air with purple.
Saturday 2 July 2011
Green
The man in the green dragon suit bends over, carefully packing his groceries into a big back-pack. His stiff, bright-green tail sticks straight up.
Friday 1 July 2011
Diagonal
Behind the fluffy tree, two perfectly diagonal contrails cross at right angles - a thick, bright X chalked on the sky.
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