Tag: mystery

* * *   Reading signs in the leaves, reading signs in the grass, Reading signs in the footsteps where ...

THE VULTURE Some boys were sitting in a circle after dusk chatting, their backs to the old tamarind tree, bare-bodied ...

  On Their Heavenly Vault   You stretch your hand towards the night sky Shifting around the heavenly bodies with ...

Inya wa Emmanuel had been visiting Inya wa Rebecca long before the daughter of the latter divorced Christ for the ...

“…within my own work that I like best are places where I experienced a sense of mystery—rather than mastery”   ...

    We Are Where We Are In the depths of sleep, I dreamt of somebody else’s unspoken words. I ...

“I think I might be an old-fashioned writer. People often comment that I'm a 19th-century writer. And I think maybe ...

  Lina, I don’t know why I have begun this letter telling you about a palm tree after you haven’t ...

Some Trees   In the long months of listening to reports of war I grew more and more attached to ...