RED SHIFT (VII) -- The Circle in the Square

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:38:53 +0000

Varkala, Kerala

November 14, 2009

The muezzin’s chant wakes me at 5 am. It is still dark outside except
for the occasional lightning bloom over the Arabian Sea. The early
morning rumbles with ominous portents. First a ferocious dogfight down
the lane with anguished howls from the injured, then an argument
between man and a woman close by, the first public display of such
emotion I have witnessed. I lie back on my pillow to read with my
nightlight, trying not to disturb T who is sleeping peacefully beside
me. But peace is not the order of this morning. An enormous swarm of
screaming blackbirds begins wildly swirling the palms in the walled
garden just to our south, reminding me of a Hitchcock movie with it’s
eerie freneticism.

Seine on Forgeover

RED SHIFT (VII) -- The Circle in the Square