New Photos!!!

I got my underwater camera developed from the Great Barrier Reef and the photos are up!!!

Red By Ted Hughes

Red was your colour.
If not red, then white. But red
Was what you wrapped around you.
Blood-red. Was it blood?
Was it red-ochre, for warming the dead?
Haematite to make immortal
The precious heirloom bones, the family bones.

When you had your way finally
Our room was red. A judgement chamber.
Shut casket for gems. The carpet of blood
Patterned with darkenings, congealments.
The curtains -- ruby corduroy blood,
Sheer blood-falls from ceiling to floor.
The cushions the same. The same
Raw carmine along the window-seat.
A throbbing cell. Aztec altar -- temple.

Only the bookshelves escaped into whiteness.

And outside the window
Poppies thin and wrinkle-frail
As the skin on blood,
Salvias, that your father named you after,
Like blood lobbing from the gash,
And roses, the heart's last gouts,
Catastrophic, arterial, doomed.

Your velvet long full skirt, a swathe of blood,
A lavish burgandy.
Your lips a dipped, deep crimson.

You revelled in red.
I felt it raw -- like crisp gauze edges
Of a stiffening wound. I could touch
The open vein in it, the crusted gleam.

Everything you painted you painted white
Then splashed it with roses, defeated it,
Leaned over it, dripping roses,
Weeping roses, and more roses,
Then sometimes, among them, a little blue
bird.

Blue was better for you. Blue was wings.
Kingfisher blue silks from San Francisco
Folded your pregnancy
In crucible caresses.
Blue was your kindly spirit -- not a ghoul
But electrified, a guardian, thoughtful.

In the pit of red
You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness.

But the jewel you lost was blue.

Older Photos

I thieved some photos from my Reef trip and such from friends so I am putting them in my album. Love yah! 21 dayjavascript:void(0)
Publish Posts! YAY!

New Haircut!

So, I got a new haircut. Its shorter than I am used to but I've come to love it. Oh...25 days! WOOT! and 4 more days of school. Can't beat that at all! Yes! That is all. Much love!

Monday...ewwww

So it is Monday October 15th here at 5:34pm. Day is done. I am bored. So I am updating you all. There is 7 more days of school for me, 3 more days this week, 4 next week. Yipee skipee. I have two more essays to write, and exams to study for and in 29 days I will be on a plane barely able to stand the wait as I fly home!!! I cannot wait to see everyone, much as I will miss my friends here. Thank God for the internet. Also, Thank God for TimTams, which I have been cutting down on. They are making my bum bigger. hehe. I had a chicken fillet for lunch with potato wedges and a bottle of water and watched these people do sign language to each other while I wondered what the heck they were saying. hm. I am taking Spanish next semester because of course, GVSU doesn't offer ASL. Psh. lol. Oh well. Spanish should be useful too. So, the computer fixing guy has the hots for me and I always magically end up at the top of his fixing list even though I don't necessarily have a huge issue. Also, he has a girlfriend and that sucks. Even though he is Australian anyway and I have only 4 more weeks here. Bugger that. I have been saving Aussie change to share around when I get home as souvenirs for all. Makes me sort of feel like Robin Hood or something. Heh. Funny, that. Well, I will update again soon.

Ta,

Jess

Pictures!

Just a note to let you all know I've posted more pictures in my album. Went into the city today and took pictures and there are some up of the bachelor auction from the other night. they are over there ---------------------------------->
I made a link so no one would be confused! Yay!

37 days.

Love and miss you all Heaps.

Love,

Me

Christian Glitter by www.christianglitter.com