CRIME AND PUNISHMENT “Ich war nie sonderlich hübsch. Wenn es nicht immer freundlich Proteststürme hervorrufen würde, würde ich sogar zugeben, dass ich mich hässlich finde. Alles an mir ist etwas zu weit, zu eng, zu kurz oder zu lang und nichts scheint so wirklich zueinander zu gehören. Als kleines Mädchen […]

topic: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT as told at a PenTales event themed “Crime and Punishment”  In the empty church, he still found it hard to get his bearings once the lights were turned out and he was left to guard the vast place alone from a little desk by […]

topic: NATURE medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Borders” “And when the rainy season comes, I know That with the fall will come two emotions; One’s not to shake from me its devotions, That of winter hearts’ melancholic woe. Delight in other rains of excitement, Storms in […]

“Impossible but it happened: a leaf Came to rest, plump and green and fresh as breath, After conducting the breeze in that brief Musical catastrophe called “leaf-death”. As through a camera falling from a cliff, We saw what it saw and felt what it felt, Delightful panic, a delicious whiff […]

NATURE “Out beyond the liminal edge, Where liquid light will someday seep, Our face is like a perfect sphere Upon the surface of the deep. Upon the surface of the deep Reflected in the blackest lake An object bouldering into space With Armageddon in its wake. With Armageddon in its […]

topic: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT As shared at a PenTales event themed “Crime and Punishment” I’d love to start by saying it was an extraordinary day, but it wasn’t. It really was just another day. I’d got up, had breakfast, kissed my fiancé goodbye, taken the tube to work, […]

topic: DREAMS medium: TEXT So, great expectations. I’m not a particularly imaginative person, so in pouring forth my thoughts on these two words for the next five minutes, I’ll take inspiration from a) Paris, b) my love life or lack thereof, and c) my job, which together probably account for […]