Alone Spirituoso
Trains ( my favorite)
So:
the hours staring out the window
trying to sleep
hearing other languages that are sounds
Second class unreserved in India, people sleeping everwhere:
on the luggage racks, on the floor, standing
One teenage Australian- amoebic dysentry
An Italian family journeying between Milan and Rome share their food with the whole carriage.
Slow Christmas day on the way to Lisbon and further south the Algarve and gum trees…
Slow Christmas day on the way to Gundagai, more gum trees…
Faster and faster the TGV to… Canberra?
Planes
So:
waiting
airport terminals, Schiphol, Heathrow, Manila, Moscow, Bangkok, Dubai, Charles De Gaulle
dreaming of sexual encounters with flight crew
watching violent inflight movies
with broken foot swelling and swelling
with blocked sinuses that split a head apart
meeting people adjacent- lovers twice
travelling with too much luggage
delays, delays, overnight, overnight
eating drinking sleeping hibernating
Hitching
So:
without language
in the whole world run off the road in Ayr, Queensland
Stuck in the back of a beetle with drugged maniac driving on footpath
Men with hands on my knee and invitations
French truck drivers striking, barricades and “the nights of burning tyres”
Italian truck drivers singing Verdi
In the wind and rain, tired and despairing
In my flat
So:
Sleeping
Working on computer
Playing guitar, viola, stereo
Learning languages
Touching, feeling, waiting, dreaming
Anticipating
Surfing
So:
under the wave
catching the wave
with dolphins, beside, under, through
fin whack in the face, wounded
ecstatic moment
below the dark
unknown calling