Abney Park 48x48

Abney Park 48x48It was 5,500 miles from mornings in my Mustang at the beach with the palm trees. It had been an 11 hour flight, a 105 degree subway for an hour through London, then a bus to Stoke Newington. I wasnt sure what way up was by the time we started taking a walk, to Zombieland as our friends' 8 year old daughter calls it. The street up to the gate of Abney Park was my favorite street in London. Stoke Newington High Street. There was a Costa Coffee where the

On the meeting

In the seven months since she’s been gone I have asked myself daily what she would tell me

Elbow to elbow

Not abstraction and misery or the glamourizing of the next escape

salt build up on the windshield

You did that with love and excitement

It wasn’t what I expected

Operating from a mindset that everything was happening to me

and decorations on the graves

I didn’t know that

Mostly just pain and disassociation that is celebrated because it made famous art

” And I said no let's just pretend it’s funny so she laughed with me and we didn’t bring him up again that visit