Sama Today the sea is calm. A few choppy waves break the surface from time to time. They are white, their froth sharp and brisk. They peak against the shimmering line of the horizon, then collapse. She has lost track of how long she’s been standing here looking at the water. Her feet have been swallowed by the soft, […]
26.09.2018 8:16
Jarawa child In her eye I see the beginning and the end of Time. I see the infinite depths of the Universe. I see Light and Life, death and darkness, us and them, here and nowhere. I see laughter and sweetness and stillness. Stillness. That is why my eyes cannot leave hers. Time has fizzled […]
24.08.2018 23:01
Jarawa They do not know that this is her; the girl who walks barefooted, who eats with her hands, who climbs trees to sit in the cradle of crooked branches to gaze at the blue sky with her toes pressed against light brown bark. She wishes now to not see people, not to be with […]
25.04.2018 6:25
Texaco I sit on the ledge listening to the waves below slap and swirl at the lip of the cliff. A pelican glides low across the water, the tip of its wings lightly brushing the swell. To the west a small white sailboat slowly makes its way to the edge of the world where a […]
13.06.2017 17:53
Writing In The Dark or The Neon Flower There were days when she closed her eyes and looked at the blink of neon red and yellow behind her lids. At these times, she stood silent, wondering whether there were words to write, stories to tell. Whether the neon flowers she saw in the dark garden, […]
07.05.2017 16:42
In the blue She lay on her belly, softly suspended in the turquoise waters. She saw her brown toes floating far beneath her, the paleness of her palms hanging lifeless before her. She felt the warmth of the sun hitting the back of her head as she gazed through the mask at the dancing rays […]