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They know everything we have done. It is important to never admit our shame. _________________________________________________________________________ The Islands of The World – Introduction Ache – Allegory – Bay – Beauty – Blue – Boundary – Brilliance – Cage – Calamity – Certainty – Chalk – Change – The City Of Red Houses – Constellation – Cork… Continue reading Guilt

Each footstep is taken on the bones of another. There is no greater proof of the enormity of time. _________________________________________________________________________ The Islands of The World – Introduction Ache – Allegory – Bay – Beauty – Blue – Boundary – Brilliance – Cage – Calamity – Certainty – Chalk – Change – The City Of Red… Continue reading Golgotha

On the island of Ghost the people believe trees are the lungs of creatures we can no longer see. Flowers, they tell us, are the eyes of those that still wish to watch this world of ours from wherever it is they now live. _________________________________________________________________________ The Islands of The World – Introduction Ache – Allegory… Continue reading Ghost

They plant trees to remember the dead. They cut down those they wish to forget. _________________________________________________________________________ The Islands of The World – Introduction Ache – Allegory – Bay – Beauty – Blue – Boundary – Brilliance – Cage – Calamity – Certainty – Chalk – Change – The City Of Red Houses – Constellation –… Continue reading Forest

Seen from afar, the embers resemble sparks. It is only when you approach you realise the extent of the blaze. That anyone survives in there is a continuous surprise. _________________________________________________________________________ The Islands of The World – Introduction Ache – Allegory – Bay – Beauty – Blue – Boundary – Brilliance – Cage – Calamity –… Continue reading Fireflies

Far is so remote the people there have no concept of distance. They are unaware of all other islands. Even the night sky is devoid of stars. _________________________________________________________________________ The Islands of The World – Introduction Ache – Allegory – Bay – Beauty – Blue – Boundary – Brilliance – Cage – Calamity – Certainty –… Continue reading Far

The streets of Familiar do not change, nor do the lives of those that walk them. Everyone here yearns to leave. _________________________________________________________________________ The Islands of The World – Introduction Ache – Allegory – Bay – Beauty – Blue – Boundary – Brilliance – Cage – Calamity – Certainty – Chalk – Change – The City… Continue reading Familiar

On Eyrie they do not kill birds but worship them instead, for while their own children never return from beyond the horizon, the birds can come and go as they please. If we ask them kindly on their return, they say, perhaps they will speak of our sons and daughters, our mothers, our friends. _________________________________________________________________________… Continue reading Eyrie

The people of Essex speak but do not listen. _________________________________________________________________________ The Islands of The World – Introduction Ache – Allegory – Bay – Beauty – Blue – Boundary – Brilliance – Cage – Calamity – Certainty – Chalk – Change – The City Of Red Houses – Constellation – Cork – Delusion – Denial –… Continue reading Essex

Erstwhile used to be an archipelago. Now it is an island. Eventually it will be nothing worth a name at all. _________________________________________________________________________ The Islands of The World – Introduction Ache – Allegory – Bay – Beauty – Blue – Boundary – Brilliance – Cage – Calamity – Certainty – Chalk – Change – The City… Continue reading Erstwhile