Currently reading
Cristofori's Dream
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into The 3.5 Billion Year History Of The Human Body
The Enchanted Wood
The Sparrow
The Ghosts Of Evolution Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, And Other Ecological Anachronisms
Handwriting
Perhaps I have to be in the right mood for a book of poetry to speak to Me. Or maybe his other book of poems, [book: The Cinnamon Peeler], was just much better than this one. I think I only "felt" or liked 3 passages in the entire book:The women of Boralesgamuwa
uproot lotus in mid-river
skin reddened by floating pollen
Songs to celebrate the washing
of arms and bangles
The laughter when husbands are away
An uncaught prawn hiding by their feet
The three folds on their stomachs
considered a sign of beauty
They try out all their ankle bracelets
during these afternoons
and
For the first forty days a child
is given dreams of previous lives.
Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred small lessons
and then the past is erased
and
I want to die on your chest but not yet,
she wrote, sometime in the 13th century
of our love