“Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.” - Twan Eng Tan, The Garden of Evening Mists (Fall 2011)

“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.” - Haruki Murakami; Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Fall 2006)

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (Fall 2004)

Unabridged Verses (Day 1)

If you want to stop staring

at the late evening moon

or everything between it 

and where you sit,

I would stop being a bellwether

and take a deep breath

to take you to atop of a mount

on my own

or carry you under a rain of pure white snow

without my coat

or bring you dried big leaves and build you a canoe

and we''ll drink the light along Thames or Danube

But that's if you want to stop staring 

at the late evening moon,

and ditch your scars with it's shadow

and leave it on your past's meadow

Pic from: http: RobIreland at flickr

Batholith's Curse

I am impatient
I am aflamed
My eyes burn like the tip of a cigarette
And the skin of my palms redden
While my brain ablaze in insanity
But out of all that,
I am not the sun
I blame you for this silly yearn
I blame you for the heat roaring inside of my toes
I blame you for lighting me up to scarlet traces
I blame you for drawing my scorching sense to you
I blame you for being the way that you do

c, b. e. w~
23th June, 2014