Like the hand of God ...

Light falls into the room where I'm reading - 

I look up to see the painting of the two boys with their cool cuts -

I see the weird plants Tito gave us -

The leather armchair -

A glimpse of the garden -

A pale sky - 

I'm reading  Shanghai Baby -

They burned this book in China -

Flames ate its debauched decadent pages -

Slave to a foreign culture -

I savored each of its aphorisms and wonderful sentences - 

That moment of common feeling -

Like the hand of God reaching down in an empty gesture to the world -

Thursday 3 December 2020

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

Dorset