sunday was my last day in mtwapa. i love last days. their rush and charge and how easily they slip into first days when you let the change tickle you.
Our neighboor down the rd from us often sits outside his compound in the evening, alcohol and newspaper as company. hans is a [...]
i am not quite blue
not quite green
the color of exotic water
i harmonize with purple
i flirt with red
i make love to brown
and tease the colors just to my left
and just to my right
i am the color of depth
lying next door to shallow
i am vibrant
and soft
and not quite either
i am timid
not only bold
i am in between
and both.
“did you say you ran out of conditioner?” sarah asks me, mouth full of toothpaste. i’m sitting on the edge of the shower (that never got a curtain while we lived in the house).
“yes i did”
“i’m a good guesser, the only word i heard was ‘conditioner’” i turn the water on.
“i think that what [...]
I found your website and wanted to tell you that I am impressed with what you have done. To be honest I thought most of what you were saying was hot air but after my fair share of reading I know that this is the real thing. Even though we haven’t always been the best [...]
Great whisps of cotton candy clouds are spun from not-quite-orange/not-quite-pink, sugar dipped sun. A caravan of speed boats land from flight in the middle of a lake, hugged by forests and large estates. The boat rocking is as provacative as the swishing and swirling in the great womb of life. but maybe [...]
I cannot hear the pages of the book i write in rustled by the fan. i cannot hear
the fan’s whirring or the pen scratching ink into the paper, or the scraping of
my nail file along the tip of my nail. there is no sound to putting on
clothes. i cannot hear the food sizzling [...]
candlelight whispers its amber secrets
under sandalwood scented starlight
lullaby of creak and groan as the water
rocks boats to sleep
i feel night descend on me skin
this is someone else’s view still i let my hair down
when beauty speaks to you, you’re bound to come undone.
to this heart so afraid of dullness
“never fear, you were made [...]
