The Gold Light of Pamplona
June 2023 – 2nd Camino de Santiago Rain glistens on the cobblestones of Pamplona. Rubbish, haphazardly strewn covers the ground, fast-food wrappers, beer cans, plastic cups, cigarette butts and black bags bust open by rats and birds. If you listen carefully, you can hear the sounds of the previous night’s festivities echoing from the walls, […]
I Have Lived
I have lived a thousand thousand nights.I have dreamed of cities eternal and ethereal.I have crossed the patterned sand blownscattered wastes of desert moonscapes. I have scaled the boney bark of mile high towering trees.I have swam in oceans, dived through flooded windows of city towers emptyparks and lonely spires.I have walked cobbled streets, with […]
The Twisting Tree
Crucified on the hard wooden floor of my mind I lay awake and aware of my body as though for the first time. The distant ceiling spirals deeply away into a bottomless rooftop tower. 1,981 raindrops drum the ground around and at each point of the circular pagoda. Overhanging tubes of bamboo, like the teeth […]
Where We Are
Imagine yourself descending a steep stairway that has been hacked out of the raw, red-rock face of a cliff in Kerala, India. The sea roars its welcome below you; tall palms wave too, their leafy shadows flirt shamelessly between you and the sun, casting weaving pattern-webs that at once cool and entrance. The sun, possessive […]
