Once I was standing on a roof waiting. And it seemed like I had always been waiting and waiting and the waiting would never end, and that nothing would arrive and that I would always have this expectant feeling in my heart full of waiting and wanting and never having […]
Once when I was walking down the street and the cold was so bad that it was shaking my fingers and my bones and we were trying to make our way to the subway station and the cold was getting worse and worse and then there were flurry things blurring […]
Dreams in my bottles Shubnum Khan In Dido’s 2009 hit song, Sand in my shoes, she sings, Two weeks away feels likes the whole world should have changed/ But I’m home now/ And things still look the same/I think I’ll leave ‘till tomorrow to unpack/Try to forget for one night […]
I was sitting on a bench in a mall when I glanced at my phone and saw a message and then my mother was phoning me and I knew before I even heard it and I didn’t know what to say except that I was coming as soon as I […]
I was sitting in the car when I heard what I already knew. I had just parked in the driveway outside my front door and I looked at my phone and K was next to me and I looked at the screen and I saw what I already knew but […]
Shall I tell you about grief? I shall not. For there are no words for roads that were never taken and trips that were never planned and hands that were never held and parts that were never pieced and seeds that were never planted and lies that were never truthed […]
One night on a train to Xi’an I wake up in the middle of the night and the world is passing by. The dark night is rushing outside the glass like a thing alive and I blink, bleary-eyed my head half-lifted. The compartment is filled with the sound of people […]
Durban: A place along the Indian Ocean with hot sand and blue skies. People here are brown, white and black and they carry the sticky edge of the city in their skin. People in Durban eat pineapples dipped in chilli powder and say ‘ek se’ and ‘vaaing’ and ‘pozi’. In […]
I recently contributed definitions for Cappelens Forslag Conversational Lexicon, which is an eclectic and beautiful hardbound leather conversational Norwegian dictionary out at the end of November. Refugee: A man, woman or child in search of a home where there is no screaming at night. Often they travel to places far […]
