| Our latest entry is this year's Travel Highlights Competition is from Philip East. Biography I am Phil. I sometimes write, though not as much as I would like to; I have a blog called bewilderedbee.com, though it never seems to match my expectations; I travel a lot, but procrastinate more, and I am so awkward that I simply cannot write about myself in the third person. |  |
Lithuanian Sauna
The heat is enveloping. With each thrash of doused birch on scorched rock
a new wave of fire wrought steam catches in the throat, as pores are wrenched open and as filth and sweat glisten and pool.
I cannot stand it anymore.
Bursting out onto the manicured lawn I leap into the murky pond. One final suspension in the dying light of a sparkling Baltic Spring, the privet hedges and thick forest, the vegetable patch and chain link fence, the distant barking dog.
Then the fall.
The heat is enveloping. With each thrash of doused birch on scorched rock
a new wave of fire wrought steam catches in the throat, as pores are wrenched open and as filth and sweat glisten and pool.
I cannot stand it anymore.
Bursting out onto the manicured lawn I leap into the murky pond. One final suspension in the dying light of a sparkling Baltic Spring, the privet hedges and thick forest, the vegetable patch and chain link fence, the distant barking dog.
Then the fall.
