I’m oddly emotional this week – milestones rarely trip me up like this. I’m much more likely to find myself in tears when I watch you on a stage somewhere – there is something about a school concert or a special church occasion that does me in. I think it’s the contrast of the hurry…
Category: letters to my loves
in this kitchen with you
There was this moment last night, where I flew out of myself and hovered somewhere up above the two of us. Near the ceiling in the kitchen, above the pendant lights that we both hate, and that also need dusting. It was half past ten already, and you were finally sitting down to dinner, eating the…
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I Am Cherry Alive by Delmore Schwartz “I am cherry alive,” the little girl sang. “Each morning I am something new: I am apple, I am plum, I am just as excited As the boys who made the Hallowe’en bang: I am tree, I am cat, I am blossom too: When I like, if I…