All texts and images by Gaelle Konak (unless stated)




Thursday 1 March 2012

Walk in the Woods


The sound of my feet on the ground
A faint whisper, the breath of the dying
The time and the impact
Of my stay here
Barely heard
Barely seen
And gone already

The lines around my eyes
And the weight of my skin, my bones
The slow pull of the ground
Of the things beneath, the call
Hungry for me
To turn me into soil
The shiver every night
One day closer

I get no consolation
From stardust and celestial tales
Nor wind nor rain nor stone
The terror of the flesh
The horror of the mind
And no God to embrace and tell me sweet sweet lies
From Eternity, no comforting smile

A cold walk in the woods
Naked and half mad
No path through the brambles
And no escape from the wolf.



Marching on

The air has a smell again
A flat world swelling with relief
Waking shivers but a big smile in the middle of the sky
for Nature hates being idle too long
And is rubbing Her hands
Like an artist in front of a blank canvas