cloud pencil names II

geranium lake  rose pink  champagne  sky blue  primrose yellow  chinese white  storm 
pale vermillion  red violet lake  ash rose  cloud grey  blue violet lake
sunset gold

cloud pencil names

felt grey  teal blue  fell mist  gunmetal  salmon  slate violet  parchment  blue grey  soft violet  light ochre  silver grey  indigo  light violet  french grey  ash blue  bistre  taupe

cloud names IV

portentous  pall  plume  with my mother in the garden at sunset  the evening of the day on which I last saw my father alive 

It is one thing to conjure names for cloud drawings yet-to-be-made, altogether another to attempt to make them.

cloud names III

presentiment  harbinger  ominous  obscurus  precipitous calamitous

skein  messenger  flotilla


My own names for clouds.

cloud names II

"Watchtower Smoke Syringe Hoof Pick-axe Tribunal Knickers Whip Soap House Dog Photo Revolver Dysentery Fire Scissors Shin Train Bowl Typhus Turnip Latrines Sun Coat Soup Lawyer Bed Child Straightline Coal Blanket Phenol Wool Fly Bathroom Rat Moustache Tooth Stove Lice Screams Skull America Barbed-wire."


Refusal by Soazig Aaron, translated from the French by Barbara Bray, published by Harvill Secker, London, 2007.

cloud names I

"She and her friends agreed to give names to the forty-five kinds of clouds in the five different languages they spoke. They spent some time agreeing on the names, repeating them, and then making up words out of the first or second letters of each name, and so on, then doing the same with the names spelled backwards.....

......Right up to the end, Klara told me, the clouds helped them get through the blows, the screams, the lack of privacy-....

......She gave me the list of clouds. One is missing."


Refusal by Soazig Aaron, translated from the French by Barbara Bray, published by Harvill Secker, London, 2007