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what are we?

taken by your music to a land of loss, bare, stark, it dares me enter places i would shun, deep in a heart of terror where the sun burns or vanishes. hear the cries of realisation, the recognition that lies in those extremes we bear within us. you have voyaged to fearful places and returned […]

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Transports de joie – Olivier Messiaen

that first outburst, a universe inventing itself as it expands – the will to be is born again time after time, making, unmaking, propelled by joy from the beginning. showers of high notes like shafts of sunlight pierce through the deep dark that dances with dust motes. out of what darkness did this rise in […]

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A hard taskmaster, the sun

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 […]