You Were Looking for Tidy Children’s Bedrooms The sirens howl for two minutes pensive silence in your eyes limbs and birds immobile like in freezing winter although we are in April One minute for six millions stars in heaven one minute for five millions moving in orbit around them two minutes to think […]
My Dad and Bowie
Do you remember a guy that’s been is how one of my dad’s favourite songs starts off. I remember you telling me that I wrote a lot about my mother and never said a word about him. But if I told you everything I know, all the sordid details, like Bowie you’ll sing Oh […]
How
Lying awake at night I tried to remember the sound it made when it fell from the tilted glass shelf above the hotel room sink, and how many times it bounced before disappearing into dark guts the receptionist — hands in white disposable latex gloves — searched in vain for half an hour after […]
Artistic Gymnastics
Romans we were not and our bikes not as high as Arabian horses didn’t require mounting and dismounting lessons but our moustachioed Wagnerian sports teacher orchestrated with scornful frowns the three-second pieces of our great leaps and falls acrobatic dramas compounded presto on the carpeted run fear hurled onto the springboard touching […]
In Memory of a Two-Meter Tall Israeli Buddhist Monk
If you google his first name, a Hebrew name that sounds like “Where? Tell,” in French, and his four-letter last name which happens to be the town where I grew up on bitter rice and green cherries, you’ll find him in the World Buddhist Directory, Chiangmai, Thailand, after Phra “monk” – a two-meter tall […]
Time Is Tired and Tabucchi Is Dead
In memoriam: Antonio Tabucchi (24/09/1943-25/03/2012) They say he died yesterday of cancer and I thought no he didn’t because all his books are still on my shelves hugging me like a nest of sweet dreams and I thought no he didn’t because a few years ago a friend believed he had and I […]