This has been a very tough time for my family. Separation after 14 years is like the untying of a huge and complicated knot, with so many twists and turns. And unexpected kinks. For Nadia and I it also feels like the unsticking of superglue - the painful unjoining of what seemed unjoinable. We have so much history together - travel, work, music, house-buidling, marriage and Tom, to name but a few, that everything, no matter how seemingly insignificant, resonates like a cathedral bell.

These words are inadequate, as seems everything I do at the moment, in expressing the picture of sadness and pain that pervades our lovely home. And to top it off, it rains and rains and rains.

tears from above
fall long from a sun-hidden sky
our cheeks, shining