creative writing

Painting of a traveler sitting on the edge of a dirt road
A Traveller’s Tale
Botanical illustration of pink and red snapdragons
The Garden
Botanical illustration of wild garlic
Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum, Ramsoms)
Painting of two swams nesting in reeds
The Seventh Swan
Detailed painting depicting a variety of strange creatures and people
Earthly Delights
Painting of white tulips on a white background
On The Verge
Painting of a forest on fire
Sliver
Impressionist painting of a woman in a light dress walking through a garden
The Garden’s Postscript
Impressionist painting of a field of heather
On Larkbarrow Hill
Painting of a European village covered in snow, there are three visible houses and a pine tree in the foreground
Send My Roots Rain
You Might Also Like
Skummeslövsstrand’s Shoreline
Frigate
There
Translated into English by Alan Bern. "L'infinto" by Giacomo Leopardi. In public domain. Infinitudes Teno's thought Leopard's hill A thick child's finger measures the endless lines between the hatches on the wood rule, dizzy from counting in another language. Later, shorn sheep jumped the trimmed hedge, landing back, lambs again, pranced off on a measured rack toward a deeply colored sun, rising or falling, dark enclosing the child like a lid. The Infinite Always dear to me this solitary hill and this thicket that screens out much of the view of the farthest horizon. But sitting and gazing out, I frame in my mind endless spaces beyond and silences that surpass anything human, and a deep stillness; there for a single beat the heart is not afraid And as the wind comes murmuring among these plants, I begin to compare that infinite silence to this voice: and recollect eternity and the dead seasons past and the present one alive before me. and her sound. So in this immensity my thinking goes under and sinks and this ship going down is sweet to me in this sca.
L’infinito
Night Choir