the sourcerer: These lazy days.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

These lazy days.

I saw creamy pale flamingoes from the M5 yesterday.

A stuffed Santa Claus in a striped deckchair in Retreat, bleached by the sun.
I felt an unborn baby girl's foot pushing against the inside of her mother's belly.

The house smells like cardomom and almonds.

We sip Pimms by the pool.

The mounted police clip clop past and steam rises from the hot tar road.

This morning someone blows me a kiss at the reservoir and I have a good feeling.

The one where you run and you run and you don't get tired.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Lily.
I love the feeling of nostalgia you evoke. Your posts often stay with me for days.
I liked what you said to me at that party a few nights back, about how doors open.
Thank you and happy holidays.
M.; December 22, 2010 at 11:13 AM
Marie said...: I love those running dreams.

I tried to practise one in OR Tambo airport yesterday between international and domestic but I got all sweaty. I don't have luggage carts in the dreams...; December 22, 2010 at 2:27 PM
the sourcerer said...: no dream! :-)
and welcome home.; December 22, 2010 at 8:42 PM
Marie said...: Ay! You were really running. Alas, I have never really been running and NOT felt tired! :-) Well done! And thank you...; December 22, 2010 at 10:29 PM

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You could tend a garden at night, only at night, pouring dark water onto leaves, and into the earth, like pouring midnight onto midnight. You could hold your soil-stained hands up to the moon. The stars would gleam on the bottom of the shovel. It would smell the same as a daytime garden - it would smell green, violet, red, white. But come back, in daylight. Come back, to see the colours without closing your eyes.
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