Posts in the “DRAMATIS PERSONÆ” category
Folderol, fall and all
by angeliska on October 20, 2007
It’s just beginning to turn here- still golden enough for your metal zipper to burn your neck, just a little, if you stand in a slanting sheaf of afternoon light for too long. Almost Fall! Nearly knee socks! Soon, soon (…)
New Orleans in August
by angeliska on August 30, 2007
The calendar tilted and swung and we found ourselves back in New Orleans in August, two years afterwards.. Rolling in on a golden afternoon, sun pulsing a steady white-hot drumbeat as we drove down familiar streets. Hello old neighborhood, devoid (…)
Powerful Ophelias
by angeliska on August 10, 2007
Somehow an entire month disappeared in the space of an hour, the longest minute where everything changed for my dearest girlhood companion- my poppy pomegranate princess, dew-drop hummingbird heart- as soon as I heard the news, my heart stopped, it (…)
Here and not There
by angeliska on February 20, 2007
It’s Lundi Gras and I’m here and not there this time and though I know it’s the way it has to be this time my heart feels flattened for Pancake Day.. (by the way, in honor of Mardi Gras, IHOP (…)
Cold Days and Child Things
by angeliska on February 7, 2007
On cold days it is Easy to behave and Easy to believe in it With a bit of ice under my clothes My tongue against the teeth I think of nothing Walk around the house on the cold ‘Til it (…)
Birthday Blue
by angeliska on January 9, 2007
Tomorrow, January the 10th is my birthday. I was born at 11:11 am. Through this week of sadness and shock, I have been dreadfully ill, with some virulent strain or flux- a malaise that’s left me feeling mighty puny and (…)
Halloweenie Time!
by angeliska on November 7, 2006
A very belated yet happy Halloween to you all.. Something strange and dark is happening in space, the waning once-full moon floating like a house, stars crossed and hanging in the heavens by frayed and tangling ropes. Monsters lurking in (…)
Juli in Luilekkerland
by angeliska on July 16, 2006
Another amazing gigantor bug on my house, with wee baby hitchhiker to boot! She was about as long as my palm, I’d reckon. Sweet Amelia hiding behind frog bones. We had such a lovely, perfect day last week- visiting the (…)
MARDI GRAS APRÈS L'ORAGE
by angeliska on March 8, 2006
With no sleep to speak of, the feathers fluttering, the sun ablazing, the glitter geysers soaring we hobbled and sashayed our rag-tag entourage across the tracks and to down Ye Olde Friendly Bar to meet up with the Krewe of (…)
Bonne Anniversaire Francesca!
by angeliska on January 27, 2006
A Birthday For Frances! I feel I must take this moment to celebrate the whelping of one of my oldest and dearest friends, . We’ve been friends since before we had armpit hair. That’s fourteen years of friendship, ya’ll! Damn! (…)
