Nicholas Laughlin's blog etc.

Waiting for rain

Watching the oleander outside my window nodding in the dry season breeze, thinking of imaginary islands, reading The Loss of El Dorado, wanting a fresh cup of tea, listening to jointpop in my iTunes, ignoring the stack of page proofs near my left elbow, trying to remember the exact temperature of the Essequibo at Kurupukari where thirteen months ago I swam under an early moon, waiting for an email from across the sea, wondering how I've got to be thirty years and almost eleven months old....