by websitesca | May 29, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul. Baudelaire, ‘Any Where Out Of This World’
by websitesca | May 29, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘In ‘The Descent of Man’ Darwin notes that in certain birds the migratory impulse is stronger than the maternal. A mother will abandon her fledglings in the nest rather than miss her appointment for the long journey south.’ Bruce Chatwin,...
by websitesca | May 28, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
Swans fly along the road ahead, but still I stand no nearer home. (Anon)
by websitesca | May 28, 2013 | Poetry and writing
LOVE AFFAIR Driving west on a black road, top down, and the wind tousling the gray, I let the radio thunder Siegfried?s death and funeral music. Suddenly I am aware my emotions are all wrong. The autumn colours crackle overhead, and in the open blue some geese in...
