Wild Sovereign Development Site

Tag: lonely

  • postcard torrent

    A few years ago I was living in Berlin and it felt indefinite. I had not made plans to stay and felt unable to leave. I felt homesick and unsure and one day I asked on facebook if anybody felt like sending me a postcard through the mail. I just love postcards. Occasionally I send them to myself.

    Weeks later I came home and opened my postbox at the door of my new sublet apartment with its old-fashioned sign, “Briefe und Zeitungen,” letters and newspapers. This torrent fell out. As we get closer to Christmas I want to remind myself and us all that this world is made up of seven billion diverse humans, and that by and large, humans are constituted of love.

  • the indivisible splendour

    Thinking of love today and how it has such deep transformative power in our lives. I so long longed for people who would understand me and be willing to be understood. Those friends and those loving acquaintances are everything to me, the topsoil on the earth’s surface or maybe the oceans which caress its journey, ‘the dance in its lonely walk.’

    This body is pining in me for its home
    that seats its hollow floor with ships, swinging and sighing,
    surging and sighing
    like birds with weighted wings
    that seeds its lonely untended beds
    with salt, to raise the precious produce of the sea
    I look back, and long to dissolve myself
    back home into the indivisible splendour of the water
    that sheathes the burning earth
    the dance in its lonely walk

    ~ from Adrift, published in Going for the Eggs in the Middle of the Night 1999