meeting
your eyes unnervingly lovely through time.
May 2007
Miranda July: Ten True Things
We grew still and looked at each other. It seemed incredibly dangerous to look into each other’s eyes, but we were doing it. For how long can you behold another person?… Read More »Miranda July: Ten True Things
Daughters of Jerusalem: Charlotte Mendelson
‘The air is shrivelled. No one can breathe. ‘ ‘Helena sees her life in sections, like a tape-worm.’ This seems to me acutely perceptive writing. Mendelson has truly… Read More »Daughters of Jerusalem: Charlotte Mendelson
Charlotte Mendelson: When we were bad
PrologueSunday 18 February 2001 The Rubin family, everybody agrees, seems doomed to happiness. Today is the wedding day of Leo, the first-born. He is thirtyfour; he has not hurried,… Read More »Charlotte Mendelson: When we were bad
W. H. Auden: Funeral Blues
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let… Read More »W. H. Auden: Funeral Blues
The cat and the mouse in Wuthering Heights
‘You’ve made me afraid and ashamed of you,’ he continued; ‘I’ll not come here again!’ Her eyes began to glisten and her lids to twinkle. ‘And you told a deliberate… Read More »The cat and the mouse in Wuthering Heights
Dylan Thomas: Elegy
Too proud to die; broken and blind he diedThe darkest way, and did not turn away,A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride On that darkest day, Oh, forever… Read More »Dylan Thomas: Elegy
Wuthering Heights: Warring Registers of Possession?
He took a seat opposite Catherine, who kept her gaze fixed on him as if she feared he would vanish were she to remove it. He did not raise his… Read More »Wuthering Heights: Warring Registers of Possession?
Happy Birthday Edward!
Your first smile. Today. Always. Always.
Listen
In your voice: castles, tournaments, touch….
gate-way
Wondering, they paused before lost flowers.
Light
Your hands. That smile. My love.
Heartening
angels touching spaces between thoughts
Chapter 15 Wuthering Heights: Love as glamorous hell?
‘I wish I could hold you,’ she continued, bitterly, ’till we were both dead! I shouldn’t care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn’t you suffer?… Read More »Chapter 15 Wuthering Heights: Love as glamorous hell?
King Lear: Who is it that can tell me who I am?
Lear is primarily a text about identity: specifically a text about disorientation and identity; about blindly losing one’s way and finding it again; about failing to listen carefully; about the… Read More »King Lear: Who is it that can tell me who I am?
Derek Walcott: Love after Love
Love After Love The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s… Read More »Derek Walcott: Love after Love
Kylie: Can't get you out of my head!!
La la la, la la lala, La la la, la la lala,La la la, la la lala,La la la, la la lala. I just can’t get you out of my… Read More »Kylie: Can't get you out of my head!!
Gabriel calling !
”Freewheeling with angels ravishes dry hearts.”
Tribute to Life and Lennon
Cold turkey never stops the love…
Joe: Fishing with Dad
The suns rays blitzed our reddening bodies: leaving us with glowing arms and foreheads. The rods, each cast out, were quivering with the strong undercurrent dragging our weights… Read More »Joe: Fishing with Dad
Labyrinth
Lost fingertips spelt a secret word
New perspective
Drawing you that way and this… Triangle, Terrier, star and tree.
A Gift
Held to the light: variegated joy.