My life has been steeped in chromaticity, punctuated by leaves and buds, but me, I’m still curled up like an apostrophe suspended between seasons. In the green garden, pointillistic blue flowers bloom as a cloud of full stops, and you surprise me like an exclamation mark, true to your pink gregariousness, bringing light and heat […]
Tag: Punctuation
Punctuation of Life and Death
When you lose someone, the world warps: a comma butterfly (settling on a nettle) distorts – flicks open wings to burnish, only to crisp in the sun. When you lose someone, summer colours tarnish; tastes and smells curdle like mouldy blackberries on a parched tongue, and all the while you long to hear their voice, […]
The Point of Punctuation (or Blame it on the Christians)
in ancient greece eloquent persuasive speech trounced written language words were written in a continuous stream to perfect rhetoric to recite in public written words had to be to read over and over again until aristophanes had a dream of annotating and relieving the unbroken stream with dots of ink to mark each pause and […]
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