today: snow, mails, notes
today: sketching a rough plan for this day, for this week
today: realizing it's Santa Claus ("Nikolaustag")
today: moving from journey to journey
i still havn't fully returned from Lanzarote. and thus it fits in its own way that today takes me back to Bratislava - this capital of Slovakia, visited in June, by the chance of a tourist ticket as side trip of Vienna. while exploring the place, i took a photo of a fascinating statue which is located on a hill above the city. i tried to find out more about this statue, the name of it, the name of the artist, the story of it, but had no luck. it's probably in the web, but in Slovakian language. for me, it's "Crow Woman". it's up now in the new Melusine winter issue, as cover image. (click to enlarge).
there's a second image of Crow Woman included in the Melusine poetry section - i especially was moved by the combination with R. Riekki's poem "Ann Beattie":
I read her stories. They snatch
away at the truth. She used to look
out the window during class.
Birds flew by with the intensity of heat.
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and one more photo link: a suprise home moment, taken from the window here on a summer day, and now matching the catch-up-mood of today: 11 Messages. the photo is combined with a flash story i wrote: Retro.
when visiting Melusine, make sure to also stop by at Melusine blog, it includes guest reviews and essays, with a focus on female authors. and here, the legend of Melusine, a figure of legend who is sometimes illustrated with wings. hadn't realized this. maybe there even is a relation to Crow Woman.
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