Fado do Morango in the Alps
2:33A strawberry in a waistcoat walks out of an Alpine village into the evening sun.
The films and the music — kept well apart from the novels.
A strawberry in a waistcoat walks out of an Alpine village into the evening sun.
The strawberry, a book, and a travelling doctor with a remedy for everything.
The strawberry takes up the razor, and the whole barbershop sings.
The empty frame comes alive: a strawberry slips into the paintings, a red drip falls, a market stall gives the books away, and a face looks out with the strawberry on its edge.
The Munch canvas comes to life: the figure on the rail closes his eyes, holds his head, and thinks again.
A man at the window, the fjord below, and a cable car climbing into the cloud.
A workshop, a saw, a conveyor, and a picture on the desk.
King Canute sets his chair at the edge of the tide, and a man with his trousers rolled up keeps it there.
Track 1. A man clears his desk, takes the train, and climbs.
Above the clouds, on skis, until the light goes.
White Silence Rising, track 5. Two people, one path, a whole summer’s day.
From The Same Argument. Two people, a desk, and what the map left out.
Book one of the Strawberry Series.
The word the system uses when a person breaks.
Nothing between author and reader.