he has always farmed here, coaxing food from the dry salt earth walking the beach with his mule and dogs. now his once deserted beach has sprouted sunbeds, strangers invade his little space, he finds their leavings. at odds with this noisy alien world that has no time for him or what he knows, he […]
A hard taskmaster, the sun. No half measures. While I dig furrows in the earth, he digs them in my face. He is insatiable, drinks our water and now sucks us dry, our landlord. No escape; can’t take the sun to law, nor reason with him. Each day we ask, now, where’s the rain? Clouds […]
Fish inhabit the muzzles of the guns, corals encroach and in the surrounding sands garden eels like spotted, shy umbrella handles weave up and down in the dappled undertow. Below deck the octopus considers with human eyes and high round forehead the careless war’s drowned riches while offering affectionate tentacular embraces to certain tasty morsels […]
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