Have you ever persisted at something that had no hope, no support but one tiny, bright ray of light? Isn’t it glorious?
Archive for ‘August, 2008’
The dandelions flower, and for a few days their spores are like snow. The air is smelling crisp, sometimes you can sense the winter coming. Summer is ending. Is this the autumn of our species?
There is a new section at Secret Vespers, called Lovesick. It is devoted to the passionate moments and affairs you are doomed to lose forever, to the desires you can barely name. It is devoted to the crushing realization that there is nothing you can fix, that there is no way to get that feeling [...]
I want to meet you without ever planning
by Somerled on August 17, 2008 at 2:09 pmI want to meet you without ever planning to meet, sit next to you on the subway and get off at the wrong stop. We’ll change our clothes, buy five dollar outfits and chase cats through alleys, steal the cameras of tourists to take pictures of graffiti, follow them back to their hotels to give [...]
Do you know anyone who won’t shut up about it when they are right, no matter how unimportant it is? Someone who would build a fence in the wilderness just to be on the right side of it?
It wakes me up again, it is a question that will not answer itself. You mark a black X on my hand and tell me it must mean something. In a better world there are longer, greater distances, there is wilderness and anarchy. I want to kiss you in a riot, slip a piece of [...]
Have you ever had a plan fall apart completely, only to discover something so much better you had missed in all your narrow planning? This is the sixth and final element in a series of six installments beginning here: http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/21/pieces-part-1/. Each one uses a harlequin pattern and adds a couplet to the story. The hidden [...]