Persephone Abbott

Posts tagged “Books

After the Diagnosis: Part Five

Posted on January 26, 2025

I would really like to go mudlarking. I daydream about this possibility. Wait, hold up – such a funny word daydreaming. As opposed to night dreaming. I don’t think I have ever dreamt about mudlarking at night. At least I have never woken up thinking that I almost took hold of a miniscule and wafer thin rose farthing only to watch it gently slip out of my grasp by the force of a passing wave as a seagull squawked overhead. (Pan camera angle to grey sky.) Yes, Nicola White’s mudlarking YouTube videos entrance me. Occasionally she finds spectacular things like a whole Roman pot in an estuary, but most of the time the finds are odds and ends. But still items that  can tell…

Lamento: All That I Read

Posted on January 22, 2024

All that I readis not my storypiled under piecesof furniture I’vecollected books from other people’s bookshelves like the air delivers dust and in myhome it gathers in the form of blocks of prose behind my reading chairunder the wardrobejammed against the wallbetween the kitchen and the bathroomjust in case I might pause midway for some literature.