KAIROS HADITH
Salt, sweat, rotary power. Spinning spokes chasing cool shadows, fleeing from the midday heat. Racing the river, towards two temples; one silver, one gold…. Even the pine trees bow – nature observing the majesty of man’s skill? Four fountains promise to bestow health, wealth, love and happiness. I have only one cup to fill, and […]
Every time I open my mouth to speak, an invisible hand holds up an unseen megaphone. This megaphone is unlike any other – it is inverted. My words pour into the wide opening, journeying towards the narrow mouthpiece. Each word is contracted, contorted, bruised and squeezed, as letters and sounds fall away on their pathway […]
A narrow-gauge line; parallel tracks which take you back in time. It hisses and groans, stutters and splutters, complaining that its rusty bones are no longer up to the task. After patient coercion, it finally yields and begins to creep forward, continuing the opera of metallic misery. Gaining speed, the countryside barrels past in blurry […]
The amber lights of busy lives have faded, only the rush and sigh of the ocean interrupts the night. Across the railroad tracks and down to the shore, we silently search for an invisible horizon; where the universe and the open water are seemingly seamless, and 1000 ton oil tankers float through the night sky. […]
I am humble in the presence of your skill. Please treat me well. I am eager to step out from the shadow of your wing. Please teach me everything. I am afraid failure will steal the smile from my face. You wont let it steal yours. On a bright clear day glass seems both a […]
Drawn to the dim neon glow, I shuffle through the night towards the light. Doors slide open to an 8-bit jingle, which rattles my sleepless retro Tetris-thoughts. Bleary-eyed, I scan the aisles, looking for something…..for an answer to my sleeplessness? As I wander up and down, past the energy drinks, the greasy aroma of the […]
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A broken logic sputters its utterances, desperate to be heard, to be understood. The left-handed sit and doodle on the free space at the margins of their work book pages. The right-handed sigh and stare straight ahead, resigned to their predicaments. The clock hands trail their orbit, dictating the pace of thoughts and motions in […]
We speed around on complex compounds, which might as well be superstitions for all that we understand them. We put our faith and our lives in the hands of those who play with nature. They convince us it can be improved upon; faster, lighter, stronger, better. I was recently taking a journey on a coach, […]
As I walked along the narrow streets I passed a multitude of souvenirs shops, with their racks of fridge magnets and sunglasses and t shirts cluttering the pavement outside. I was strolling by one particular shop, when something caught the morning light and glinted a silent beckoning to me. As I approached the object I […]