Archive for February, 2008

Riding a Bicycle

February 25, 2008

A man who habitually walked on stilts would develop ’stilt’ muscles.

Could it then be said that his body ended with his stilts rather than his feet?

Sherbet

February 18, 2008

This morning ten minutes before sunrise the sky a huge orange blade horizon to horizon, faintly ominous, unnatural-looking.  Above that, tinge of pink (colour?) the same - horizon to horizon.  Watched the orange turn grapefruit then lemon, then sherbet, then just pale.  15 minutes = sun shining.

Question

February 14, 2008

If I said, God is the spoon in a dish of ice cream and you believed me what would that mean?

The Hidden Wheel

February 8, 2008

A coffee shop.  Two glass sides.  On the left hand side reflections.  Directly to the front, the glass doors.  Closed now to the cold air.   Conical form of the paper cup.  Hemisphere of the china cup in its saucer.  The table flat.  Inspect its grain.  Plastic wood.  Fine plastic grain, like untreated pine of some sort perhaps, but that isn’t it, no varnished just bare smooth wood.  A glass.  Beer in the glass, no tea.  Just three bubbles where the liquid’s surface meets the glass edge.  Inspect the rim of the glass.  Slight pink tinge from the lights above reflected and outside the shop, the cafe, the long pink sign of a hairdressers.  Stone set in the floor.  Under each glass panel a steel support fixed with screws every yard, approximately.  In the picture on the wall behind the counter that takes up approximately 50% of its upper half, a huge green wheel, which on further inspection turns out to be the close up of a brooch fixed to someone’s black well-groomed hair.