Trip to the Mountains

From the train, the only dis­tin­guish­able life is mani­fes­ted through the unend­ing clotheslines, and the cars left lying care­lessly and haphazardly around the deep scars human­ity calls roads. Through their clean wash­ing, I pry into their...

Self-definition

I am weird des­pite a lack of defin­i­tion for normality. My mother says I am organ­ising a revolution. My friends say: enough of the exist­en­tial­ist crap. I take pleasure in the fact that the integral of d(cabin) over cabin is...

Framed in Grey

I am sure they missed my word of thanks, Or mis­in­ter­preted it, which comes, at the end, To the same thing. Both their faces were Pic­tures framed in grey, and every memory Had etched itself a line on the leather-smooth Canvas. One looked out the...

The Excavation (an ode to writer’s block)

Out of the dark­ness, a tunnel has been chiselled. Painstak­ing and heart-rend­ing, over the years, from the inside out. Slowly gently, the water begins to trickle from the dam Aiding in its turn the excav­a­tion; carrying twigs and mud and gen­eral debris...

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for Seamus Heaney As in war, we are com­rades and enemies all at once. We inter­cept another’s plea for help, and understand instinct­ively the pain and the struggle to escape. Some­times, seeing between the coded lines we com­pre­hend a deeper mean­ing...