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Lavender lies

  A lake and a mountain Painted on a snail A vaporized sky exhaled through a flute Music in the sweet curve of a ripple Sound on a grain of mountain dust Pink stardust on fingertips Smudging the edge of notepaper Hushed indigo of the day's goodbye And the snail moves to Norwegian wood   -           Started reading it last night.

Soft, generous blanket of quiet

It's an universe...the inside of a car. The music lingers after you have switched off the radio, the miles mist away in a swirl of nothing after you have finished the journey (for that time, at least), cool air shivers at the vents of the AC that is off now. The headlights no longer shine on the lane that is now wet and slick with cold rain. The inside of a car feels a lot less lonely than the inside of the home. It could be that the home is for the steadfast settler of the mind while the car is for the gypsy of the heartbeat. And that heartbeat can take you away from the tangled mess of 'here' so easily. That heartbeat, of course, sings when you are on the road. But in the stillness of the night, even when no-one is going anywhere, even as the home beckons with its ease and familiarity of the soft blanket and the warm food and the rancid coldness of being alone yet another day, a moment inside a parked car is perfect. Sometimes, I sit inside for just a moment longer, b