Thursday, February 24, 2011

Flow

Below is an excerpt of one of the most beautiful, picturesque illustrations from Russian writer Anton Chekhov.

"EVENING twilight. Thick flakes of wet snow were circling lazily round the newly lighted street lamps, settling in thin soft layers on rooftops, on the horses' backs, and on people's shoulders and caps. The cabdriver Iona Potapov was white as a ghost, and bent double as much as any human body can be bent double, sitting very still on his box. Even if a whole snowdrift had fallen on him, he would have found no need to shake it off. The little mare, too, was white, and quite motionless. Her immobility, and the fact that she was all sharp angles and stick-like legs, gave her a resemblance to one of those gingerbread horses which can be bought for a kopeck. No doubt the mare was plunged in deep thought. So would you be if you were torn from the plow, snatched away from familiar, gray surroundings, and thrown into a whirlpool of monstrous illuminations, ceaseless uproar, and people scrambling hither and thither."
-opening paragraph from Anton Chekhov's "Heartache," translation by Robert Payne

Monday, February 7, 2011

Precisely

The cornerstone of my loneliness: your love. Molding new foundations one building block at a time.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Worth the While

These travels pose an infinite puzzle to complete;
Each mile that inches by snaps into its designated place.

Yet the puzzle, meant solely to puzzle,
Deems itself impossible in the long run.

But alas! This unsolvable puzzle must remain
Unsolved.

For if the pieces, somehow, someway,
Suddenly fell into place,
What is the worth sans spontaneity
in this lifetime?

Longing to run --
Though the more I run, the less I know,
just as it should be.


Postcard-perfect pictures still deny one the aesthetic beauty as experienced in person.