Quality time with an english dictionary

Kinda...

Climacteric: The marked and sudden rise in the respiratory rate of fruit just before full ripening

Sustain: to keep going, to suffer and undergo

Cacophony: harsh or discordant combination of sounds, lack of agreement or consistency

Renunciation: an act declaring that something is surrendered or disowned


*writing about prague in voditsa*

pummeling czech at eachother in the front yard
the undersides of flowers
an eyelash
a zip

*writing about istanbul upon arrival*

Black lines on maps mark separation.
I can only see a muddy smear, just lapping up against the edge of this coffee sludge shore.

Through a wall of sandbags, Berlín flooded ínto Prague, Budapest, Bratislava...
Slovakian soup began spelling in Romanian and then a flick of the toungue, Bulgarian.
Cyrillic fades to Arabic,
Herds of sheep cloud ínto waves of exhaust.
Dirt roads now lead from palace to palace.
Istanbul.

Unledgible language, sweeter sweets, less hostile glares, more conversation in general,
more prominent noses, less babas, more head scarves, you know, little things.

Filter coffee is back in the picture frame! Only now it's a concious half Lire more than a filled-to-the-brim pinkies up cup of Turkish sludge; comes with a side of bells, gongs, and low lit lamps.

A puff of hookah then a slippery step down a pseudo abandoned cobble-y street, plunging from smudgy daylight ínto dark this is Istanbul.

I have to remind myself.

Rainy damp Berlin has muddled ínto a wet desert postcard. And i am doing the exact same thing.