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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Your father and aunt were writing to prisoners today. Neat letters with kind words. My page stayed blank, and I felt selfish. I couldn’t write, not even to you. I went to the place where…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Walked my dog in the evening and ran into a gaggle of policemen downstairs handling a domestic dispute. Headed home and read some poems to avoid scanning the news lest I see familiar faces being…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I get up eventually. I’m happy. It is an incredibly bright day. I read. I think about Jack Spicer’s Martian in his brilliant lectures in The House that Jack Built (Wesleyan University Press, 1998), edited by…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Good Enough “… I’ve lost count of the years …” This day a year ago, during the launch of her published play Wild Boar, Candace Chong said this in passing. It hit me very hard,…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY The June sun warms my skin. It feels like summer. I have come to the public pool to swim laps. It is nearly deserted, except for the lifeguard. The water feels cold at first, but…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Everyday Soundtrack It’s six weeks now since I moved to this other part of town. Into an apartment near the train station. With a kitchen window view to the incoming and outgoing trains. To the passengers, walking…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY We went to Garryvoe beach today during a rare Irish heat wave in early June. The sea water was quite warm but a cold breeze cut through us from the sea despite the brilliance of…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I take the old ferry across the harbour for the first time in five years; I think of water. They’re talking about stopping the ferry service even though it has brought locals from peninsula to…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY On Sundays my son works backstage doing tech for a church in Wan Chai. The dress code for the production team is all black, allowing them to disappear into the shadows. The goal is to…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY A Lazy Sunday in Abu Dhabi June 4th 2023 was a largely unremarkable day. A lazy Sunday in balmy Abu Dhabi—where I unexpectedly find myself, having left Sri Lanka when I least expected to do so.…
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