(cactus-shopping successes, dirty evening lighting, handmade cushion covers from wonderful friends, a week of mondria(a)n and velasquez readings and impending essay deadlines)
Purge // Michael Mlekoday
[purj]
-verb
1. to try and be a storm, as in the way
it always storms the day you leave a place
2. to try and be a saint, as in the forgetting
of the body, its blush and rushes of blood
3. to leave the party early and alone
4. to abandon, as in watching ivy
crawl up the side of a house
5. to set the house or body on fire
6. to kneel on the porch at midnight
until the joints ignore their own whimpers
7. to keep exhaling until the chest is empty
and no longer burning
Hi!! Your friend Verlee forwarded my your blog link - I had told her about my trip to India I am taking next year, and she said it would be cool to read about your experiences! I am leaving for Kolkata in Feb, and I will be there for 12 months, volunteering at an organisation called Freeset, helping free women from the red light district! Your time is so inspiring there!
ReplyDeletekolkata's an amazing place; you'll have an equally inspiring time, i'm sure! make sure to go see plays, visit darjeeling and sikkim, eat lots of bengali fish curry, and go to the coffee house (for vibes of revolutionaries past - the coffee's atrocious) whilst you're there (: meant to write about all that, but never got around to it, but you'll have more time than me to explore that part of india anyhow - enjoy!
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