Bright light behind me only shape remains resting, hovering, suspended clouds blacken against an orange-pink glowing sunset black, too, the white-breasted hummingbird and the pink-striped hibiscus against the golden burst of a fresh-out-of-bed sunrise the curve of a jaw the connect-the-dots peaks and valleys of wind-tousled hair my own light, energy eclipsed features undefined.
Archive for the ‘impermanence’ Category
Silhouettes
Posted in Aging, Existential, impermanence, Mortality, Youth on June 12, 2020 | 2 Comments »
And if I found you?
Posted in impermanence, Love, Poetry, Spain, Writing on December 2, 2019 | 1 Comment »
I seek out the street that shares your name amble behind the bull ring alongside the Guadalquivir across the Puente de Isabella II past the restaurant where we ate poorly-fried tapas when we weren’t hungry.
Nameless
Posted in Existential, Guanajuato, impermanence, Isolation/Belonging on October 28, 2019 | 1 Comment »
Every morning I ascend the spiral stairs, coffee cup in left hand, right hand on the railing, counting each step slowly, mindfully – to greet the morning and the town from the rooftop terrace, chat out loud, in Spanish, to the neighboring dogs neurotic in their too-small rooftop spaces, gaze back and forth across the […]
Darkness Drops
Posted in Aging, Fear, impermanence, Protest, Time on February 26, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming (1919)