For Renée. From a message I received while rowing through the reed channel.

Quote from K.

Quote from K.

Title from a line in Anna Akhmatova’s Crucifixion. Quote from K.

Quote from K.

Quote from K.

For K & K

Venus and Jupiter approaching conjunction, June 9, 2026. Quote from K.

The Cessna 337 Skymaster has a push–pull twin-engine configuration and doors hinged at the top, opening upward into the airflow. For Peter M.

After a story my grandfather told.

Days later, neighbours on an adjacent island said: “So that was the sound.”

After Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem.

From something Ziji Rimpoche said.

Naval hydrophones once picked up sounds thought to be foreign submarines—later identified as herring releasing gas.

Quote from correspondence with K.

For Julian

I remember “bouquet of a charging rhino” from labels of Dodoma red wine (Tanzania, 1970s).

Title adapted from A Marvellous Garland of Rare Gems by Nyoshul Khempo.

For K.

The throwing of the water drop might be part of their mating behaviour—accompanied by a “gree gree greech” call.

My grandfather often said, “If you want this, you can have it all,” when I watched him painting flowers or landscapes in watercolor. He meant it.

From something the Sámi artist Lars Pirak told us about his family standing under the night sky, hats in hand.

For K. Title from our correspondence.

The final lines refer to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. “I would be satisfied if this work were to give pleasure to one person who read it with understanding.”

Aer enim volat, antiphon by Hildegard von Bingen, translating as "For the air flies".

After a poem by Patrul Rinpoche, written as advice to himself.

Quote from K.