Tag: eyes

• The Temple of Clothes

  I caught someone inspecting me the other day. Okay, it wasn’t an inspect exactly –it was more of a look… Well, maybe a glance, but it bothered me all the same. I could feel her eyes doing a quick little dance on me. They started on my mud-caked running shoes, before appraising the hem of […]

  gozzter

  September 6, 2017

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  Afghanistan, anticipatory dresser, chador, clothes, eyes, forest, inspection, names, Pashto, trail, translator, vocabulary, woods

• The Unfallen Yellow Leaf

  ‘Age, with his stealing steps, hath clawed me in his clutch,’ as the gravedigger in Hamlet says. I’m not so sure I agree –he was speaking about a skull, after all- but I have to admit there are times when I do feel old, and shipped ‘into the land as if I had never been […]

  gozzter

  December 7, 2016

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  Age, aged, eyes, faces, Hamlet, John Updike, memories, patients, pregnancy care, Rabbit, recognition, the gravedigger