Today is Em's birthday. Em was actually born in December, but has celebrated her birthday in April for a number of years. The story about why is somewhat involved and I don't really feel the need to tell it again. If you're interested in why, best to hear the story directly from Em anyway.

Happy birthday, love. Hope you're sleeping in still.

[somewhere i have never travelled]


somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

After much thought, I've decided to reclaim my personal journal as a personal journal and move all my photography out. Hence, we have a poll:

Poll #968133 New Photography Journal
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 19

What username should I use?

Should this new journal be public?

When created, would you like to be added to the new journal?