[1] Johnny’s Big Day
A world like this, all comforting miracles – people can change if we really try. The world spins to itself and flies around the sun – I believe that…
[2] Hunt that beast through every city
Johnny’s world ... where has it started? I don’t know where they took him, only that they all left with him before I could hold him. I open the window…
[3] Through wooded landscapes, silent and invisible
We wake together in darkness. I light the woodstoves in kitchen and studio, and boil water for tea and warm Emma’s morning blanket. I step outside to…
[4] Images of an exiled past
What! What? Who? All right, yes then ... Paul did it too, once. I saw. Don’t let him tell you he didn’t. Every morning for seven years, he’s poured…
[5] A dream sleep has fallen on the city
First thing, she tried to pass one by you about playing catch with Johnny. The truth – she’s terrified he’s going to be left-handed. Don’t ask…
[6] I have slept with the lions
Through a frost blossom in this kitchen window, across the snowbanked yard and its wind devils, through Paul’s studio window, I see their forms moving.…
[7] We are not doomed to stay
All right, then. This is the first time since Johnny’s Big Day that I’ve tried this thirty metres across the garden. My first walk. My first time outside…
[8] The happiness of leaping dolphins
Nature is beautiful, when I look. I stand outside the studio door at dusk, at the base of the church path with my face to the Dream City – hidden by…