A digest of recent posts
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Waiting to pull the trigger
…though not as debilitating as total ones! In some respects a partial vacuum is where I feel I am at the moment, writing-wise. Perhaps I should explain. But in order to do so I need to provide a little context - and it is context which, paradoxically, is born from the best possible scenario.
17 Alma Road
VIII This time he heads anti-clockwise around the garden: right-hand border first, then past the apple trees, about turn at the vegetable patch and back up the other side. It seems strange how doing so — and looking at the garden and house from this marginally altered perspective — can make things seem both the same and different simultaneously. He stops near where a swathe of germaniums cascades from the border onto the lawn, and remembers how George kept them under control, constrained in their patch. Yet he did so all the while allowing you the impression that they were somehow free to spread as much as they wished. It was a tightrope he walked with his garden, control versus chaos.
Curly Kale
a quiet moment the conveyor belt empty like an oasis in a sandstorm yet there they all are still trolley-pushing shuffling the aisles archaeologists searching for treasure some come armed with lists as if these were maps x-marks-the-spot others on autopilot or bustling randomly you get to know them the types especially when they fi…
