blue ice
the fog crept in like a stealthy cat balanced on the mountain tops and swallowed up the view the evergreens and snowy peaks vanished like illusions and he felt he was the last man on earth stranded on a… Read more ›
the fog crept in like a stealthy cat balanced on the mountain tops and swallowed up the view the evergreens and snowy peaks vanished like illusions and he felt he was the last man on earth stranded on a… Read more ›
San Carlos is a dog rousing itself from the paving stones to comb the streets for food, a kingfisher swooping down on its glittering prey, a woman singing to herself as she sweeps the sidewalk clean. Last night’s throbbing… Read more ›
At La Luna del Rio the river rushes past the wooden balconies like a frothy sea, swirling in eddies around the bobbing canoes as if it were going to engulf the entire town, to sweep away the pilings and flood… Read more ›
the apartment by the tracks that I rented from the dwarf contained no shower just a bucket of water hanging in the courtyard heated only by the sun so on cloudy days I frequented the hammam where wiry cross-eyed Hamid… Read more ›
“A beautiful carpet brings a smile to your face each morning” (Persian saying) The skeins of yarn deftly wound around the warp in Turkish or Persian knots have survived the tread of children’s feet the hurried pace of the… Read more ›
from time to time she appears to me staring through the window of our battered Renault in the same kerchief patterned with red roses she wore four decades ago hugging the same puny dog scarred by patches of mange she… Read more ›
a sign posted at the entrancecautions overweight childrento avoid the footpathat the base of the fallswhere the little men los duendesdressed like stoplightsin their yellow capsred smocks and green bootssnatch the ones who can’t run fast enoughand drag them to their cavesto… Read more ›
the higher you climb the more the summit seems to recede like an unobtainable dream in the end you’re scrambling over bare rock at times skirting a granite wall on a narrow ledge searching for handholds at others hoisting your… Read more ›
bitte we implore you for the environment’s sake drop your towels on the floor if you want them changed use water sparingly shower with your spouse flush only when necesary turn off the lights find your way at night with… Read more ›
They came in mid-autumn, sailing across the stark brown hills like white ghost-ships and settling on the tiled roofs of the villas by the school To the muezzin’s deep dismay, they built a nest atop the minaret and when… Read more ›