Sky and Earth

Words circle protestingly, a page of solid ink. Sky and earth. Meeting. The sky so strong so enormous settling everything, choosing what glories – what weathers! what tints! what beauties! – to bestow on earth. A city of gardens; a noble river; exotic sun-scorched or leafless trees and bursted flowers. Words breathed into the cool night air, floating like clouds, swelling the atmosphere. Chandapore. India.

Picture credit: Indian Home, 1927, A Y Jackson (source: WikiArt)

See the opening to A Passage to India by E. M. Forster. 

From journal, February 2023.