Movement creates heat so we lay, still as air, rooted as the banyans, propped and languid. There is only one consideration: How slow can you go — we adapted the game, a new kind of limbo. Minus perdition, which no one liked at the end. It’s easy to dismiss darkening skies from this angle, underneath… Continue reading Elsewhere, Maybe
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Ripening
The lychee and mango are ripening against sapphire blue, the air scented with notes of green pepper and salt. Circulation slows but there’s a quickening to the linger, pregnant as these days are with swelling sun and swelter. Finding little respite from distended clouds, stay. We were taught to count – one, one hundred, two,… Continue reading Ripening
They came, despite Flying things and crawling things and Swimming things and slithering things and Stinging things and stalking things. They came, despite storms that lasted for miles, Leaving great floods in their wake and Islands that were not islands Amid grassy oceanic plains Connected by waterways like some colossal neuronal network. They came, with…… Continue reading
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