Lust For Lascaux

Andrew Bird- Tenuousness

During the first winter, he bought 22 semi-waterproof flashlights from the Dollar General and tied small anchors to the battery ends. On a star-bright night, he pulled me to the sea. We turned them on and threw them in the break, a foot apart from each other, parallel to the shoreline. They settled, light end up, on the alabaster floor of the gulf. Each cresting wave rocked the flashlights, throwing beams through the ocean and into the sky. An underwater chandelier, aquatic sparklers - if the phosphorescence was blooming, the sea would shine neon green in all directions.

That kind of light never lasts long enough.

(song via racheloolala)