This is why and how,

changes in the physical environment may produce a sharp boundary


.

écotone.

entre deux langages.

circles, lines, marks, imprints

the shape of things

wind

all night the wind howled and raged and
beat against my window like an angry child

osmosis

l'effet contraire.

....y a pas de couleurs comme ça chez nous; seulement à la fin de juillet.
des fois.

quand les journées s'étirent et que tu peux pas voir ton propre visage
parce qui fait juste assez sombre. juste assez frais.

je suis pas amer. mais le bleu, ça me fait toujours un drôle d'effet.

swan-song

I would call; and the reeds would whisper,
"Go to sleep, go to sleep, little swan."
My legs were all hard and webbed, and the silky
Hairs of my wings sank away like stars
In the ripples that ran in and out of the reeds:
I heard through the lap and hiss of water
Someone's "Sister . . . sister," far away on the shore

from The Black Swan by Randall Jarrell