Portfolio, blog, collection of thoughts
“See that girl she’s looking great
she used to be quite over weight
she may not be entirely straight
perhaps is just a rumour.
always did as she was told
apparently she’s on the dole
spends it all on alcohol
perhaps it’s just a rumour”
“But I hate to say I miss you
‘Cause you don’t need me anymore
You politely say, “I miss you”
But we know you don’t mean that anymore”
“‘Cause your’re a hard soul to save
With an ocean in the way”
How six months, later Mike called Anne in tears at 6:00 a.m. from rain-smeared Chelsea Street with Elliot long gone. And Anne raised at the Cineplex when Megan took some space and Meg’s mom tore off all her clothes and walked into the yard the night her husband left. And I ran hard through freezing rain in just a sweatshirt when Jenn left me for her ex.
The asphalt slick, wet hair streaking my face when Carter pulled me to his chest so close I couldn’t breathe. Said let’s get you a drink and led me towards a basement bar then flipped his way through plastic jukebox sleeves. So many loves; so many griefs.
“We’re always lucky,” I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.”
– A Moveable Feast
Evening
He told us, with the years, you will come
To love the world.
And we sat there with our souls in our laps,
And comforted them.
–Dorothea Tanning
One of the many annexes of the Karácsonyi mansion in Banloc, Arad county, Romania.
Photo by Alin Zelenco
Forgotten
Queen Kate
Snow in Tokyo
Photo: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images
“During the campaign, Mr. Basescu called Mr. Ponta a “compulsive liar” and an “ogre” and said that appointing the man who tried to oust him would be like swallowing a pig.”
– Romanian politics in a nutshell (from a Times article)
