How to be a girl
Stuff I say to make me Feel better Fluff I tell others to make them Feel happier Bluff _ Managed to live yet another day to grieve Be … Continue reading
The disadvantages of a (very) bovaristic education
I blame it on my mum, seriously. She used to read to me poetry by Prévert, Jimenez, Pablo Neruda. She handed me her first copy of Love Story, worn with … Continue reading
to me, you are
to me you are a lost possibility you are a bet I could not win you are the lucky dice that rolled away you are the train I kept … Continue reading
you cracked me open
you cracked me open you broke me in half you pulled me together you tore me apart yet to me you were a kind of loneliness a mysterious … Continue reading
not even a real person yet
What will become of me? A drop in the ocean A tear in the rain A grain of salt in the desert A wee fish in a sea of sharks … Continue reading
found you
A tale of something found, only to be lost. found you in the middle of my days where there was nothing to be found anymore_ touched you in the … Continue reading
Tales of an expat: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Brooklyn is definitively one of the loveliest book I have read in the last months. It’s the tale of an expat, a situation to which most of us can … Continue reading
Side effects
Be frozen my heart. Be still as a star. Stay algid don’t beat forget the rise and the fall. Stay gone, my heart. Be remorseful and forgetful and never … Continue reading
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