Chinoiserie

chi‧noi‧se‧rie

1.	a style of ornamentation current chiefly in the 18th century in Europe, characterized by intricate patterns and an extensive use of motifs identified as Chines

The phone woke me up at 9:48am, I didn’t realize it was ringing until it stopped. I walked down to eat; grabbed a bagel and some coffee, and headed to the library. I was generally in a black and cold mood, it was a frigid 45 degrees and windy.

I stepped on somthing that ground against the concrete. It was a shard of percelain, with a blue on white Chinoiserie pattern. There were pieces of it everywhere, covered in lines and patterns like fish-scales. I one in my pocket, feeling its sharp edge against my thumb, not sharp enough to cut, and thats ok with me, I’ve never been too melodramatic.

Nadia brought me a plant yesterday, a little succulent, not disimilar to the ice plants that my brother and I used snap off the sprawling plants that carpeted the dunes by Sea Ranch. When you snap them into they make a crisp, clean break, squirting moisture on your face and hands like beads of fog.

I put it in a little jar, with a similar pattern to the one on the peice of plate I found this morning. Makes you pause, doesn't it?