picture of success

I've got my best shoes on
I'm ready to go.

John Betjemen

“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows."

I'm just pulling on a line

and sometimes it pulls on me.

The line, it inks across the freshly fallen snow,
Where only those embracing coldness would go
It whistles & it whispers, and sometimes it howls,
It sings to me sweetly from the trees & in vowels

The line, it writes itself across the dark sky,
In the electric flushes ending with a sigh
It weaves itself into a fabric so true,
and flows just like river, graceful and blue

great lake swimmers

Petit

As for the false friends who helped and gave up, who helped and betrayed, they are merely guilty of not having had enough heart to move mountains. I forgive you. This is why I changed your names in the text and blackened your eyes in the photographs-to confuse the gods. Perhaps they will not recognize you.

Nicholas' eyes...

"... became wet jewels
the hardest substance in the purest pain
as I fed him in his high white chair."

Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters