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i moved where my heart had drifted off to long before. i live on a hill of hundred acres, where my dreams have merged with the view. it is quiet from machine noises yet loud with sounds of horses, dogs, cats chickens and ducks. nature is the true artist in resident and i am just her apprentice who often gets lost in her gaze. once and a while i travel back to cities and foreign places to put into photographs what i have learned, yet always, part of my heart is left on the hill..

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

the window


every morning after staying still i turn my body towards the window across the loft. my cheek layes on the pillow as i stare through it. it frames the tree perfectly and the sun loves it. i get lost in it, i am not sure how much time i spend there each morning but i know it makes me happy to begin my day this way. soon it will bud, then leaves will follow, will it block the light, will i see through it. will i be here long enough..

it does not matter, right now i just don't want to close my eyes or move in anyway...

Monday, February 23, 2009

happiness arrived


in the form of the wind it whispered in my ear
" i have plans for you" i said yes, please. i sat at the steps
and listened to it all night tell me of my great adventure to
come. excited i immediately started packing for it afraid it would change it's
mind..i had ingnored it once before and the price was great.

now i stand in the middle of a place i will not return to, i am happy, no i am alive,
i am ready.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

the rain


this place is so different. i lay so close to the window i could hear the rain clearly it feels like i should be getting wet. i listen to it some more and i am jealous of it. the rain has such freedom, it travels all around, it's journey never ends.

i told him i think i have accidentally erased myself, he says i am mistaken i am shedding layers, i say i don't like it, he asks why and all i want to say- no shout is stop it, please stop it. he looks at me and i ask him if he is bored of all of this, he says no and asks why i say such things i answer i am bored of it, of me. i tell him i have nothing to give. he says you are getting used to this that is all and i now tell him enough, enough.

my hand is on the window now, the rain taunting me, i want to touch it put my hand through this glass because opening it will take too long

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

sing


he walked down the staircase and asked her what she was doing up she said that she had dreamt of a song and that she was trying to sing it. "can i listen" he asked she said that she was still trying to piece it together. trying she said " i heard it before"she said" yes you said you heard it in your dream" no before that she responded as she ran to her note book " yes here it is, it is from
the documentary man on a wire"

"..her large green eyes embraced me ..and when we held each other it was as if we were children planning our next bout of mischievous..."

why do you look so sad " it is silly i know but i always thought that one day i would wake up and have the ability to sing" you make others want to sing he said, they both started laughing as he held her hand and walked her up the stairs as they tucked each other in he whispered in her ear" your large green eyes embrace me"

Friday, February 13, 2009

what i learned in bed


my eyes open and i look around trying to stay still so that i can have a few minutes for myself. somehow overnight my bed has doubled in size, yet the 100 pound white beast has no idea since my legs are pinned underneath her. the air in the room is different, the sun trying to push the blinds open. i start to think about last night and how i tried to get out of going to the play till k. held my hands and said " but honey you love the theater" he is right. i sat there listening to lines like " my life is in you" and " life is not printed on a dollar bill" i cried at the theater, the play moving. i felt alive. i look around the room again trying slowly to stretch without stirring the dogs. I think about the changes, the deep shedding that has taken place these last few weeks. I think about how i was afraid to stop loving k. and now i know that is impossible but fear that he will one-day stop loving me. the dogs notice me and come close to me my face gets licked by grace and sophie rest her body so close to mine. now i think about how i was afraid that my world had become to small always fighting to have no boundaries but somehow the last few months i made it small, so small that i had padded the walls so that nothing could hurt me, betray me, lie or make false promises to the point where i had walked away from everything i loved and that loved me except k and the girls. the last week i knew that i was starting to remove the padding and maybe put a few windows...this morning i felt the air touch the exposed skin.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

had a little to much

IT IS MURDER mrs Palin what you call
hunting. Killing wolves with arial planes, letting them run to pure exhaustion then you gun them down?
a stipend reward for each pair of wolf paws- in the rest of the world mrs palin will call that poaching! and who pays for that the government.. what?

"i don't eat veal" well do you eat beef hotdogs because that is a small calf sold and slaughtered and two days old for fifty dollars are less.

cheese and other dairy products are not so cruel.. really? cows can not even go to the bathroom in peace they get an electric shock so they step backwards and poo in a specific place..

i was listening to i guess the view on the radio.. could not breath at how cruel the world can be who are these women do they really represent all the woman out there

there is ethical ways to do things get informed.

and what about the water bottle- really please let's try harder!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

lying in the snow


i could feel the cold through the glass as i sit at the cafe
and type. I am all over the place trying to find inspiration.
there is plenty out there, but i am a little lost as of late.

sometimes i am afraid that feeling so much made me loose the ability
to feel.

perhaps if i layed in the snow out there, the cold and wet of it might wake some of my senses, then perhaps the people that would stare out the window and point at me would trigger humalation or maybe i would just think to myself yup thats me lying in the snow like a seven year old. whispers of what is she doing, is she okay.. would be heard. as i would stand and walk back to the table where my laptop rest and mocha awaits, i would stare and no one..and simply proceed as usually. just thinking of it makes me feel free and different.

i need the winter and the snow to stay for a while longer...

stay a while longer

Thursday, January 29, 2009

the lights went on


early this morning around five am i was driving home when i approached a small over pass to
my exit. as i looked to my right i could see a sea of school buses(hundreds) , i had noticed them before. as i prepared to take a second look all the lights on the buses turned on..it was surreal and beautiful truth be told it was magical...like a little gift to my eyes. nothing beautiful about big orange buses( never cared for the school bus i had a weak stomach).. i love when hard edges, industrial environments become beautifully soft.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

charade

i swallow my words and feel the lump in my throat till my heart aches just to spare you from pain. i drive out of the way so that you will not be caught like a deer in the headlights. i bury my pride so that you can roar like a lion, a lying lion.

i sit in his chair and tell him i want you to hurt, why do i want you to hurt i ask. he responds by saying you don't, so i say i want him to feel and he says he is incapable of feeling..i say not good enough. I say i am tired of him, tired of talking about him. he tells me about all the women who sit in this chair who have a someone like you. that you are nothing special, have nothing to offer just in ability to take, he is mediocre at best, a charade of a man.

i say i don't want to talk about him, i ask, do i hate him, he says you are angry, i say i don't want to be angry he says you have the right to be..

Thursday, January 22, 2009

brick

i stare at all the bricks they form a wall
it feels as if i have been working on it my whole
life. I am scared sometimes that it will never end.
and scared it will come to an end...no not really.
i take the needle that is the present put the thread that is
the future and i mend the tears from the past.
my heart only knew bursting with joy, never have i known this splitting
of the seems. never would i want to again.

i am scared today, a little for the wall cast a familiar shadow
yet i hear others talk about the sun. i start again brick soaked
with the moisture of my hand. which is the wall and which is the pile...

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

snow


You love it don't you
yes very much. what do you love about it
everything
like what
i like it is white and clean, i like how it is cold and fresh, how it's bright, the way my cheeks feel
i like the memories i associate with it
like what
you sure ask a lot of questions
like what
snow angels with my brother, six feet high walls, childhood igloos, skating on the lake, sledding with friends on new years, winter spent in vermont with dogs...
you are quiet did you not like my list
no i did
is there a but
well i did not give you any of these
why should you give me any, i am capable of it myself
well what i mean i am in none of the those
what, maybe not in this list your not but in the list there is me
the me that led me to you, that fell in love with you, besides are we moving to a tropical country
no why
then there will be many snow falls my love i promised you, come here
why cause i want to make a memory.......
that's cold yes..
but don't you love it
i love you in it...

Saturday, January 17, 2009

white horse



he lifted my chin with his hand and said i have not seen you smile in months. I protested and said that is not true i am always smiling...you know what i mean. No, no i don't. then he asked if i would like to dance, but no one is dancing i said, when did you care i am not sure i answered, i am not sure. he walked away...

I wanted to tell him everything. how i had dreamt of a white horse and had let it drink every once of my passion, till it left me for dead. that i did'nt dream anymore.

i could hear his footsteps come towards me his hand on my chin again he lifts it till my eyes met his, i try to stare away but just then he says.. i am not without fault in this.. i want to say why did you let it happen, why did you not fight for me, but instead i say what i know to be true, you could not have stopped me for i had fallen so deep into my dream..that even within my dream i had dreamt..

Friday, January 16, 2009

left them


The other day while sitting in a cafe my husband pointed to a story in the newspaper and asked me if i had hear about it, i said no so he proceeded to begin within the first sentence i asked him to stop and even though we where in a public place i immediately started to cry. I was angry at him and asked him why he thought i would want to hear about that..

I used to listen to the news(never local), read the new york times and visit my independent media sites, i was on top of things- i had to be my clients expected it from me. But it has been at-least year now, that i barely have the stomach for anything but a comedy at the theater...

i am not naive about what is going on out there i do get informed. But nothing prepared me for the story that my husband had begun to tell and i have not been able to get it out of my mind, i t has profoundly altered my thoughts. as I stated before i had my husband stop telling me of the story just a second after he began, i do not know the ages, race, state.. in-fact nothing really except the following i must warn you i have decided to write this in my blog because of personal need..but you might not want to read the next paragraph or two.

On christmas day a father was driving his daughter and son to there mothers house in the bitter cold when his car got stuck in a snow drift. He told his kids that they should begin walking the ten miles remaining to there mothers house, the daughter or more so the way i play it in my head the sister died along the way and the brother was severely damaged. the father got out the snow drift and proceed to go back to his house when he received a call from the mother asking where the children were. that is the extent of what i know. I can not stop seeing the brother and sister walk this mountains highway stretch.. what was it like, what did they say to each other, did he try did she try.........
I tried to make peace with all of this, but what right do i have. I completely lost, i want to help them, hold them. i want keep them safe, hold there hand or perhaps lay with her and show her that she was not alone but she was, he was..........

i can not stop thinking about them....did she find something to hold onto in her mind..before her eyes closed...oh god who are you and why would you allow this...

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

he calls you love


she. has he always called you love

i. no just recently

she. if you do not mind me saying it, but there seems to be anger behind it

i. oh, i suppose there is

i. (is quiet)

she. i' am sorry have i upset you.

i. no, no i am glad of your honesty

i. (thinking) he asked me what i missed most of the affair
and i said "he used to call me love" perhaps it is his way of
working through it, i am glad for it, yes i think i am.. for now
every-time he says it i cringe and that will surely erase any longing to
hear it spoken by anyone......

she. but i have upset you

i. no not all, in fact i am glad of it, it has helped me
shall we go get something sweet...

Monday, January 5, 2009

violin


i sit and listen to the violin, one note sends me back in time
my whole body blushes. i turn my gaze to the ground trying
not to let my secret show. the power of its chord sends shivers
to all those places we lingered. I know now i do not need
to be loved but to love him perfectly.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

the month i love





it is finally here a new beginning, or a new chapter, perhaps a new book. January is my favorite month, last year i wish january never came for i lost jacob january first. This is a new year, a new january and it has been wonderful so far.

Friday, December 12, 2008

breathing


my head layed on his chest, i could hear him breath no i felt it. he breathes then i, then him, then i, then him
i hold my breath now so i can catch up to his, i let go ..... now one breath, one single movement, johny playing in the background
and us there on the couch, not his place , not mine but our moment, a moment like no other where innocence still existed, i miss the person i was there in the space, my head against his chest our stillness moving moutains, our stillness stiring life deep within me...

Thursday, December 11, 2008

why are you holding on


let go, don't travel down the rivers of my veins and
don't stay in my heart it is not safe there, broken and condemned
it can fall at anytime.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

you are not him


i saw you there, dressed like him in your long black coat and hat, i tried not to look and for a moment or two it worked. but when i turned again i saw, it was you. i wanted to cross the street, i wanted to disappear so i started walking fast thinking how can this be. when i said goodbye i thought it meant you would seize to exist i believed it, naive of me i know, but wasn't i all along. all i could think about as i rushed through the darkened city streets, please, please, i don't want to hear your voice i don't want you to look at me and i at you ..now i realized i was running and all the night lights where playing with me. then i heard it, my name my heart ached instantly as feet stopped, my body begged for mercy. i knew you were right there behind me and tears began to fall, then your hand touched my back as i turned around- it wasn't you, him was not you i stood there with tears among the traffic lights, cars and watched my heart fall to the sidewalk floor..all of it, to much...

peaches


i lie in bed restless thinking why have i spent all these nights awake and what am i meant to do with all this extra time. i ask myself these questions every once and a while but the answers never come. tonight i lay here and odd things enter my head like peaches, library sinks, i think about lies and oil changes, i think of bald heads and hairy backs, i think about cowards then i wonder how dare these thoughts waste my time. then my lips part as i say out-loud " i should have checked if he had a heart beat"....and for some reason this brings me peace and just like that all those thoughts disappear and i can hear the rain again it has been falling steady since midnight and i now know that the rain will not turn to snow like promised, so i pull the blankets closer to me as i listen to it fall hoping that somehow my eyes will begin to close and i will sleep...

Saturday, November 22, 2008

the car



i am staring out the window of the car, barely any leaves left on the trees yet the sun shines bright i am following it with my eyes. he is looking at me while he drives and i try not to think about it. he says my name and i like how it sounds but i keep looking out the window. i want to tell him to stop the car, get out and hold me but i don't. he is staring at me i could feel it I want to say stop but i don't because that is a beginning of a dangerous conversation, then i think of you and i hate it and makes me angry that you have somehow entered my thoughts and this car. i stare hard out the window now and there is boys playing football and i want to tell them to be better than their highest expectations... he says my name again and now i just want this car to stop and i want to be on the outside of it but all i could say is 'i hope it snows'...he says you look like snow. i can't respond. he is quiet now as the car begins to slow then stop. we are here now but i don't want to get out and somehow i have forgotten how to breathe but i can't stay so i step out and as i do my voice begins to crack and i don't stare back at him-as i say, can you hold me but he does'nt hear me and he says can you say it again please but i can't .....

Thursday, November 20, 2008

skin




lately i have been giving some thought to my skin, when i felt it and when i was conscious of it. I think when i was young if i would scrape it then i knew it was there. then i started to think about when i felt good in it, when it felt alive and i realized it was when in the company of someone else. i remembered my rosy cheeks and conciseness of the skin i was in, i remembered the paleness of it that would take a rosy glow once i had experienced intimacy our genuine happiness, laughter and newness.

I realized that how the skin reacted to those things and how good it felt and how youthful it made me feel. Later i started to think why does it take love or passion? i know i have experienced it after a dip in the ocean, or a facial or a great hike but nothing like the makeover of being in love or experiencing love. I look at myself lately and i see non of it..no sign of love or youthfulness then i wonder before you came was it there this feeling of fitting in to ones skin? I want to answer yes, because i was independent, i ate well i took care of my skin stayed out the sun..and knew i looked young but did i feel it..was i conscious of it...and if it is'nt possible to achieve without a grand passion.. and will these new lines disappear if love finds me again..will i run out of the house with rosy cheeks, will someone at the cafe say you look radiant,, will i catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror and like what i see, will i stretch out on to the bed and feel every morsel of skin. i ask myself does the skin sleep till passion fills every crevasse...

Sunday, November 9, 2008

no not the same


you asked if my smile was the same
and if my hair was still long
a second later you asked if my eyes still sparkled
and if my skin was still rosey and pale...

you asked me why i as was so quiet, you said hello
hello in the receiver as if the line got diconnected

disconnected, yes.

those things no longer apply to me, perhaps the long hair..
but i still drink mochas, read russian litterature, i have two dogs but there not the same ones, i know longer practice, i cry when i am happy and now i cry when i am sad and sometimes when i am mad and i am all those things a lot of the time.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

a new day


i had this dream that something like this could happen, but somehow i thought it was also possible to loose faith, that the light could go out yet we would be forced to live in some uncomfortable darkness..not expecting change, not having the right or courage to ask for it..but then it happened that thing we call justice, purpose , trust .... he did it ..you did it, they did it
and i sat here whispering yes we did..and now he will and we will help.

Monday, November 3, 2008

time for change


waiting for the biggest change of all. I want to speak to you and let you know that tomorrow we have the power to profoundly change the course of the missile that bush launched 8 long years ago. although being a canadian living in the us, i do not have the right to vote( i would like to get into that but i won't) I will be working at the civic center from dawn till night, the civic center is the place where those who have not registered can register and vote on the same day. I wish i could speak to every single person coming into that building specially the ones that don't believe in fundamental change, those who are stuck in generational voting based on what there parents church and peers have always done, because this is not there fight- this is not their vote it is yours. Your vote should be based on what? on facts and what you have experience in the last 8 years. I could list some of those we have in common such has gas, prices, the cost of groceries at your local supermarket, the changes taking place at your work place, a war that you seem to ignore yet takes money right out of your children's education not to mention has killed your neighbors children perhaps even yours... it is the tension and home that has caused stress in your marriage, the summer vacation that had to be tweaked, the sport you did 'nt encourage your son or daughter to take part in... or maybe it is even deeper that- maybe it is guilt for voting for someone who did not have your family's best at heart, one who ignore your pleads and told the rest of the world you don't care ...

so listen you get a second chance to make things right for you, your family, neighbors and for the world..do the right thing vote for a man who has promised to make your life better, a man who knows that his work will be the toughest of any president before him, a man that knows he will be shoveling this country out of a mountain of dirt, a man who knows you and your needs, worries and what you treasure most.....

Please vote for what you know is right and what is right right now is OBAMA..

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

when the sound you hear changes everything....


when you are woken by the sound of rain it is bittersweet. at first you listen to it as it hits different places of your home, your window your roof..and you love the sound. your eyes begin to open and the room is darker and you like it. you pull in your blanket closer to you and think maybe i will linger here a little longer. then you begin to think of your day at what you had planned for it and now that too must change. there will be no walk in the woods with a friend, no raking leaves in the garden...but perhaps you will stay nestled in comfy clothes and work on that project you have been putting of, perhaps you will make that recipe that you have been wanting to try...maybe you will make a pot of tea and curl up and watch the italian movie you ordered from netflixs...but then you think, maybe you won't change anything and you will put on your wellies, and rummage for a good raincoat, fill your thermos with something hot and go for a walk....just maybe you will do that...

Monday, October 20, 2008

air


i feel the cold. my hands begin to seek the comfort of my pocket and i move my head to the left to avoid the cold air that rushes
towards me. i hear the sound of the leaves on the ground as i walk over them..dried and frail are the twigs that have fallen in my path. my head now looks down enough to shield itself from this bitter wind, my hands hidden safely from the cold
i walk faster now towards home

Friday, October 10, 2008

early morning at the cafe


it is early morning and i park
my car in empty parking lot
and walk to the front door of the cafe
as i open the door i am greeted with
mozart that quickly changes to country?
I sit at the corner, get myself situated
plug my lap top, wish I hand a book instead
what i mean is i wish that it was back then
before all this

i walk to the counter and i am greeted by newlywed tiffany
she hands me a card with my name on it written with a sharpie pen
it is  thank you card with a gift inside. I order my soy extra ice mocha,
but she is quick and it is already made. I look at the case of morning pastries
then look away and before i can stop myself i say i will have
a pumpkin scone please, oh gosh i never order such a thing
and considering that my waist line has grown since i started blogging
i wonder now is that just me? i return back to the table
and now louis armstrong is playing and i start to remember my cafe
and how louis armstrong would play as i got everything ready for the first customer...

now people start to trickle in, i hear every voice clearly
I hear the noise their shoes make as they hit the tile
i look out the window as i sip my first sip, the sky is changing
it is a lovely pale blue with hints of gold
I am wondering about my day now, but quickly i say
to myself, be here in this moment don't rush morning

i love this time of day.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Monday, October 6, 2008

the smell in the kitchen


loved that we watched elegy in bed inthe middle of the afternoon
loved the smell of apple crisp baking in the oven
i love the spiral staircase that takes me to you
i loved the sun drenched walk in the city on saturday
i loved that i survived the dogs
i loved that he had a key and he did not hate me knocking at 6 am asking for it back
i loved that i survived you saying you did not want to be my friend
any more while you leaned on your pick up truck
i love that i would never do that to you
i love the smell of tomatoes, basil and garlic that travelled up the spiral staircase
i dropped the mirror and heard it crack, but i love that i did not get sad about it
loved even more when i uttered to myself "just try to give me seven years of bad luck"
i loved when i turned that song up really loud and danced in the kitchen
i loved all of it..well  almost!

Thursday, October 2, 2008

opera

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

do you

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

an affair and a dress

Thursday, September 25, 2008

c. you

this is for you carl. i understand it and it is lovely and grown up.

Monday, September 22, 2008

trying to convince you i am not made of stone




i started this blog a year ago, it was a place of my very own, a place i could write things that troubled me; pain, heartache and loss. it was also a place where i discovered that in those things lay something beautiful something that cried desperately to live again fully.

it is a year now and not too much has changed yet nothing is the same, i walk around as if i made of stone and that i will not be affected by peoples actions or words- then feel my heart ache when ohers treat me like so.

i am not made out stone, i am not made out of stone iam not made out of stone... i am not

Friday, September 19, 2008

sophie and the chaise

Monday, September 15, 2008

bees.

i am grateful for the sound of the fiddle you played for me
i am grateful for running into you and your orange shorts
i am grateful for the light that pours into this house
i am grateful for the taste of lemon on my lips
i am grateful for feeling things without feeling things
i am grateful for the tears that are brought on by your harsh words
they gave me a fever.

i am grateful that i am not dead
i am grateful that i am living.
i am grateful that in the rain i do not get wet
i am grateful that is so much more to learn, to feel to express
i am grateful that.........the funniest songs can be played on pandora
i am grateful that i did not kill bees.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

i do not like sarah palin

i think it is long overdue to have a woman in the white house but just like if i had not eaten in days, i would not choose to eat a spoon of poison but instead wait for something whole and substantial

mr. john mccain i think you have done good things
but i think that if you were to be honest with yourself
you would see that your time has passed, that being elected
would be a risk for your country and if you put your country first
then you must start now.

dear undecided, i am not sure how that is possible- in good conscious
how can you choose anything but real change, hope and promise?

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Monday, September 8, 2008

dans une boite que je ferme avec une clef-une boite juste pour moi

Nadia,


Je visitais sur la base du hasard ton blogue que je connaissais beaucoup moins, La porte rouge (j'ai compris maintenant que ta couleur de prédilection est le rouge). Bien sûr, il s'agit d'un bien joli blogue, les photographies que l'on y retrouve, comme sur One silent winter, sont exquises et encadrées dans une esthétique qui balaie du revers de la main les bases du formalisme en tant que matériau d'expression. Il s'agit d'une fenêtre ouverte sur ton environnement immédiat et, parfois, plus élargie. Il s'agit, en réalité, de toi. Au moins une lézarde dans une partie de ta vie, et par laquelle, pour nous qui accédons à cet univers, tu te rends à certains égards transparente. Un peu comme le trou dans la serrure d'une ancienne porte. Une porte rouge, oui, si tu veux. Toutefois, cette présentation de la partie de ta vie que tu veux bien offrir suppose un travail de création. Une mise en scène, quoi. On prépare le terrain, on ajoute ceci, on retranche cela. Un peu comme un théâtre, non? Voilà, on pourrait dire que tes blogues prennent la forme d'un véritable théâtre muet. Des images circulent - je dirais même se structurent dans une sorte de parade -, elles passent, elles murmurent sur la base d'un frêle frémissement quelquefois, tu sais, comme une sensation rafraîchissante d'un amour nouveau, le frisson que sa pensée peut procurer en superficie du coeur. Théâtre, donc. Mais tout cet univers théâtral me paraît si construit, si bien aménagé, que j'en reçois aussi, par ailleurs, parfois, un sentiment de fragilité, comme si un filet de brise, un grain de sable qu'il apporterait jusque dans sa mécanique, l'ombre d'un nuage encore pourraient, à tout moment, jeter au sol cette architecture teinte d'un certain art, sinon la briser, du moins en disloquer la structure. Voilà, je sens une grande fragilité entourant l'univers de chacun de tes blogues. Un peu aussi comme une lumière de cristal: le soir finit toujours par survenir et tout se tait. Les rideaux du théâtre se referment sur un monde de surface.
Au théâtre se trouvent des personnages aux caractères divers. Tu évoques parfois, en nous la montrant dans différents moments de sa vie, ta chienne Sophie. Parfois il nous a aussi été donné de voir des enfants égayés sur tes blogues, une petite fille (peut-être la tienne) à la chevelure quasi mystique et gonflée de vent. J'ai déjà aperçu un magnifique cheval qui, par l'éclat de sa présence dans un contexte climatique d'une beauté poétique, sinon onirique, semblait appartenir à un conte médiéval. Et il a été fait mention, tout dernièrement, d'un homme que tu racontais être ton mari. Je t'avoue que je fus sidéré d'apprendre que tu étais mariée. Je m'étais, depuis que nous échangeons quelques courriels de temps à autre, rangé derrière l'idée solide comme un barrage que tu vivais seule dans ta maison, avec ta chienne Sophie. Par ailleurs, je n'ai jamais pu réellement souffler le nuage de mystère avec lequel tu voiles ta vie quotidienne, concrète. Tu t'entoures, délibérément ou non, je ne sais pas, d'un grand drap derrière lequel nous ne pouvons t'apercevoir. Ce que tu acceptes de placer sur tes blogues finit par aviver l'idée chez moi selon laquelle tu ouvres un chemin sur lequel tu espères que les visiteurs marcheront. Tu les diriges. Je parlais de théâtre. Au théâtre, tout est contrôlé, calculé, évalué.
Voilà ce que j'avais envie de te raconter aujourd'hui.
Bonne journée.
Au revoir.

monday


i am happy you are here.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

a dogs life


sleep, sleep, sleep she does it perfectly
perhaps i can learn form her.

Monday, September 1, 2008

not sure what to say


i am pointing down, but i sure would like to go up
i do not know what to say
i am happier, i know it
i do not know what to say
i am growing, or is it opening
i do not know what to say
i like when blueberries stain my fingers
i do not know what to say
i think people are not scared of karma
i do not know what to say
why not

i do not know what to say
so i was wondering if you can say something...

Monday, August 25, 2008

pretty good..


in a moment just one pure clear moment, that only last a second or two you say to yourself " it is okay, the pain, the misdiagnosis,the un worthy friend, the aches, the fragile heart, the lake made by my own tears...

you say it's okay- because what i have now is pretty good....okay in fact.

then there is sophie, and a new home with gorgeous spiral staircase, there is the smell of fresh paint, and weeds to pull, there is dinner last night when your hand took mine and i knew it will always be okay-just cloudy some days...

Thursday, August 21, 2008

fresh air





i miss you and i miss our hikes
i miss the sound of your voice and
the crips moutain top....

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Porter
i miss you everyday
you were loving and sweet and kind
your eyes full of warmth
thank you for being by my side
dear companion.
( i'm sorry i could not give more life)

Friday, August 15, 2008

by chance





i wish i could walk towards the light till i bumped into ghandi, tolstoy, mozart, einstein, mother Teresa, mr. king....or my grandmother just have a few questions.... or maybe i am in need of answers to ones i have already asked
no just your presence would do..just by the of chance you dropped your handkerchief, a strand of beads, or you would like to work on the speed of light formula, or maybe you would like to play me a symphony that your working on, or you might want me to read the new novel you just finished....or maybe we can bake together while you talk about egypt.....or maybe you can tell me how to get people to elect hope , just maybe by chance
we can meet?

Thursday, August 14, 2008

a foot in the dirt





i took so many things for granted, while chasing dreams that were made from to many russian novels. Then i saw you standing in the garden with your feet in the dirt, was this the first time? did you ever walk without shoes on your feet on the grass before? my head started spinning- i realised i had so much to learn that fifteen years was not enough, special when many of them had me running in the wrong direction. I spent a whole time wondering why you did'not learn me, never once asking why i had not studied your feet.