I love you more than you can ever imagine… I am an orphan when you leave for work, but a One-Dog Welcoming Wagon when you return And when I see you, darling: if I had a tail I’d wag it!
Night ride
by Alioscha on May 26, 2012
Climb astride, gallop I will be your stallion tonight Ride me without fear We are joined steadfast by mortise and tenon We are joined forever As gulf and ocean We are one As waves and water Water and waves Earth and hoof Horse and rider
violin
by Alioscha on October 23, 2011
Loneliness is not the broken violin, it is not the worn strings or the useless bow. Loneliness is the missing musician. *** 1 – “Sometimes it feels that your life is a game you play to make me feel more and more lonely” He said with his eyes fixed on something outside the window. She […]
Laudation of Mariana, a sort of late toast.
by Alioscha on August 24, 2011
Let me raise my Vegetarian Glass to make In Absentia, a rather late but simple laudation of my beloved niece Mariana, in the occasion of her marriage. She is universally considered beautiful – which she no doubt is; and sweet – to which again, I have no objection. But that is the outside, and the […]
The rainy season is upon us…
by Alioscha on October 25, 2010
The rainy season is upon us, the people under the skies and the pathos of Vancouver Island. There is really only two seasons around here: the drier, tempered few days we call summer and the unending years that constitute each winter. The light dampens, the spirit sinks and the plants first get sickened by rot […]