Alchera #32: Alphabetized in Pairs




Things You Love… Alphabetized. I went back in the archives an entire year to see what list projects we've done and, oddly enough, none of them deal specifically with things you love. But making a list of things you love it just too easy, and the point of Alchera is to challenge the creative mind. So, not only are you to make a list of things you love, but you are to do it with the alphabet. That's still too easy in my opinion, so you've also got to come up with at least two things for each letter. 'X' is really going to be tricky. (Example: Aenima & And All That Could Have Been, Blueberry muffins & … this is a lot harder than I though… Bourbon?) This kind of project takes time.


  • American Eagle clothes | Ariza Sensei's classes
  • Blackberry milkshake | Books, the smell of them when they're new
  • Chicago | Chicken biryani
  • Dubuque, IA in spring | Dawn, slowly evolving while travelling in a car
  • Essays, correcting them for Japanese Culture class | Eclipses, both solar and lunar
  • Falling leaves in front of Rohlman Hall | French, speaking it for short periods
  • Grape juice after dinner | Greek mythology
  • Himura's voice and quiet eyes | Hands, when they are long, soft, and well-groomed
  • Ice cream | Io, the way it looks like a bizarre marble
  • Japan | Juan Valdez coffeeshop
  • Kotaro's eyeglasses | Kisses, when I get them
  • Languages, the feeling one gets when one begins to understand | Laughing hard
  • Madison, WI | Minori, the sight of his broad back when he was about to swim
  • Night skies | Napa Valley, CA
  • Office supplies | Observing people on the streets
  • Pony Malta | Planetariums
  • Questions, both asking and answering them | Queen
  • Road trips | Rain, the sound of it in the night from a cozy bedroom
  • Star Wars | San Francisco
  • Tea, green, preferably hot and shared with the Japanese people I miss | Travelling, especially for the landscapes
  • Umeshu | Updating my blog
  • Vintage clothes, music, TV shows... everything | Visibility, when the southern mountains finally reveal themselves for the whole city
  • Words like 'willow' or 'widow' | Wind, touching my cheek through a window in a car
  • Xylophones at André Rieu's concerts for old couples | X, San... San-X!
  • Yoghurt | Yarn, its softness when folded, meshed, or knitted
  • Zucchini, when it's soft and sweet | Zippers, playing with them, zipping and unzipping

Alchera #31: Cobalt Boy



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When the day breaks

With the first touch of yellow

The cobalt boy

Will look up

And float

And melt into the sky

As a myriad colors rain

In violent drops of dawn

But nobody will miss him

For everybody is taking

The quiet monochrome night

Unnoticed