Saturday 23 March 2013

Poem / Cathedrals




CATHEDRALS

each morning we build cathedrals, we decorate them with sea shells and eyelash salt, warm light and dreams of butterflies.

but by nightfall nothing remains but trampled sand castles, coppery, tarnished green, a fear of the night that drowns us, then the sea that washes it away.

each morning we build cathedrals, we decorate them with gold dust and sea salt kisses, chocolates and silver rings and summer dreams of flying flowers.

but by nightfall nothing remains but a tramp and his dog pissing in winters doorway, a fear of the fear as the blood of Friday night, washes us away.

each morning we build cathedrals, we decorate them with violet dawn light and dreams of flying, and dreams of dreams of flying.

but by nightfall nothing remains but a list of things to do and a mesh of things unanswered, and the dreadful knowledge that we are not what we intend to do - we are what we already did, intentionally.

and each morning we build cathedrals, this one is made of sandpaper, we decorate it with glitter, phosphorus and ribbons, we ink and hand print our best intentions, we brush it with milk and prick it with a fork and bake it.

by dusk, nothing remains but a rusty caravan, empty balloons are ripped condoms, there’s the fear of the plump shadow, and the vodka and the cunts wash all your wishes down, with the laughter like a drain.

this morning you built a cathedral, you rose, you bloomed with prick, kick and thorns, this one has a thick skin of rubber, it will be as soft and yielding as time, forgiving and elastic as love, over and over, again.



(c) Cathedrals by Salena Godden / 2013

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Tuesday 12 March 2013

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Also NEW! 15min talk about Springfield Road and the art of writing memoir. Recorded February 25th at London's 5x15! Mentions inspirational quotes from the autobiographical work of George Orwell, William Burroughs, Laurie Lee, Jean Rhys, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Bukowski, Richard Pryor and Richard Brautigan…and much, much more! See it here 5x15stories:  


Tuesday 5 March 2013

Winter is dead! 'Springfield Road' Vanessa Gebbie Interview with Salena Godden


“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
- A.A. Milne




Winter is dead! 
Spring is springing and today Vanessa Gebbie’s special blog-guest is Salena Godden having a chat about mopping pub floors, about Unbound Books and Springfield Road, about Roman times and solitary confinement in Andalusia and more, more, more… So have a coffee,  click here and have a butchers and have a beautiful springy springtime daffodilly day! 






Springfield is springing