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11.17.02 - 12:05

on a day like this you peek out of a window and see a tiny triangle of flat cornflower blue. you walk to a bigger window where the sky spreads itself out in front of you like a what, like a blanket, like a carpet, like quiet conversation. don't cry, you can rely on me, honey. i know. the sky shades slightly lighter where the sun sits like a headlight, a halogen lamp, a moon. it's bright and beautiful, the edges sharply defined, a glowing white circle set in a field of blue. you think that nothing bad can happen with the sun so bright and the sky so flat and blue. it's sunday and the breeze is cool and cookies are baking in the oven. sometimes i look outside my window and i feel like i've fallen into a painting or a photograph. how can all the colors be so dimensionless? how do the houses look so flat against the backdrop of sky and trees and power lines? if you made a perfect drawing of the view outside my window i would tell you that you needed to review the chapter on perspective. but i'd be wrong.

doug sang pretty songs and they were sad and appropriate. sometimes the only thing that makes you feel any better is feeling so much worse.

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