Monthly Archives: March 2010

Come and Soothe Her

The Tigress You hear her. Prowling in the darkness, her shadows and her light weaving in and out. Her sharp, sharp teeth, her swollen fire, her lonely lows. The tigress stalks the night and you pray she preys on you tonight. . The Gazelle and the Stallion Which would you? The gazelle, slim and lithe

Eat Drink Man Udon

We never meet any more. Life gets in the way, that’s the usual excuse. You have your work, your husband, your pantheon of friends and family. Juggling all of them looks easy but we both know nothing could be further from the truth. You make it look easy. Clichés like this comfort us, we think

The Fountain

. The Fountain of Youth I It is the end of days. The nurse comes and takes away the vase of flowers, sweeps with her right hand the dead leaves off the window counter, disappears, returns with a fresh bunch of flowers in the vase. These are white flowers, what sort, you ask yourself, but

Raise It Up

There is a story here, somewhere, there always is. I have been living through terminal transfers and airport arrivals — Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Singapore, Kota Kinabalu, Subang — and I don’t stay long enough before I have to depart again. I check into hotels and check out again. The names and the destinations start to