reflection
A reveler stands bemused and dazed on the sidelines His gaze lost behind the reflection in his shades Is it the continuous flow of semi-naked dancers in the street Or the joy enhancers that fill the happy balloons Combined with the compulsive beat erupting from the music rigs ? Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]
Children carrying chairs over their heads for an upcoming event A wild procession of horned beasts hurrying down the street Unrepentant penitents like the famous self-flailing masked Spanish monks The blue reflection in the mirror reminds us that our past follows us We must drive on, our eyes intent on the winding road of future […]
As the day wears away the children bring back the laundry from the river It has been along hot day and the chores mixed with the play in the water Now the river is a reflection of the sky in pure silver it moves slowly like melted metal Soon night will fall like the flip […]
Is it a walk, is it a strut ? Like an ice-breaker on fire, beauty ploughs through the the human tide Killer stilettos and Gucci pouch, big gamebag slung on the shoulder Designer jeans that hug more than they fit Dressed to kill, if they are not already dead at first sight Dark shades and […]
A waiting-room in Buenos Aires, with a view through a Venetian blind An airport and a late plane, the time that spills and drips into the long tunnel of my mind The invisible and the out of focus, like lifetime lost in its own reflection When you wait, time seems to expand into an infinity […]
In some faraway interstellar underworld, what if the three wise men were women ? What are we sure of, and what is the real part in this tenuous dream we call life ? We are on a mission to the stars, we are tomorrow’s aliens, our future clinging to razor wire Now in the London streets […]
Under the dappled skies of the rainy season, days follow days in a kind of endless chain Dusk comes crawling from the far side of the Earth, it is the growing shadow cast by the dark side of the day It comes with a burst of gold and purple fire, like the door of a […]