OUR CATEGORY : Pierrette Requier

Unravelled

Ravel’s String Quartet in f second movement inches me down and across to the North Side, already late for a deadline. Winter slept in this year, just woke up to its shifty business of snow-blowing snow, car exhaust spewing fast and furious as the wind gusts. Flashing brake lights the only flick-flick of colour in […]

Sketches of a Return, February 2006

We leave the dusty city in a grey that is more dull than boring, a drought grey that returns me to my worst fears— that nothing ever changes, is as dreadful as they said it was— like a bad hangover I try to sleep off as the wind picks up, rocks the truck. In half […]