the boy with the blue hands

[asakiyume]

I came across a boy leaning over the edge of a snowy chasm, his chin in the snow and a magnifying glass in his hand, looking at the leaves and feather flowers of hoarfrost and snow...



"They're a little like ferns or the notched needles of certain cypresses," he said, his speech clipped, as if he were very cold--and he ought to have been very cold, lying there in the snow. "They're like them, but much more beautiful. I could look at them forever."

I got down on my knees to look, but he pushed me away. "You're too warm!" he said. "You'll melt them with your breath, if you don't knock them with those clumsy mittens."

I saw his hands were blue and his fingertips practically black, and his thin, sharp nose and the lobes of his ears, too.

"It's not good for you to be so cold," I said.

"It's perfect for me to be so cold," he said. "Perfect. . ." And he moved his magnifying glass over to another fringe of hoarfrost, once again lost in contemplation.

Comments

[i-am-sarah.livejournal.com]

I love the pictures! Good job on them!

Also, on my computer it shows that you posted your entry at: 1/11/10 01:11 pm - That's a lot of 1's! :)

[marshallpayne1.livejournal.com]

Ooh, those are pretty! :-)

[sovay]

"It's perfect for me to be so cold," he said. "Perfect. . ."

Prrrrt.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

This was amazing.

[faerie-writer.livejournal.com]

Oh, *so* pretty! :D

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Wow! So beautiful!

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, I forgot to tell you but we actually had hoarfrost this year! In fact, there's been snow on the ground for a week!

[salyey-marya.livejournal.com]

there's another parable -

there's meaning in what you write. in search of the perfect we become cold...

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

The hoarfrost is beautiful.

The boy's enthrallment in the glamour of hoarfrost is both wonderful and frightening. Is his name Kai, perhaps?

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

Cool pictures (no pun intended) :)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

They are beautiful but sheesh I hope he's okay.

[pjthompson]

Oh how beautiful.

[skogkatt.livejournal.com]

I love this whole entry. The pictures and the text. Thank you.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

So beautiful. I love "The Snow Queen."

Nine

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Very cold. He's like a boy out of Greek myth, or a fairy.

[littlemoremasks.livejournal.com]

That was really rather disturbing. I still think your call is not YA fiction, but modern folklore/horror. That boy... I'm going to have a hard time not seeing him at the edge of my windows.

[behindpyramids.livejournal.com]

The weird and perfect beauty of your lines reminded me of Brian Andreas, and your photographs filled me with such peace that my mind has informed me...it's okay to let everything go and fall asleep after a long day thinking of nothing but hoarfrost and snow.

[core-opsis.livejournal.com]

You have a billion comments here (which I haven't read), but I just want to say how lovely this post is--the exquisite (ack--I don't know how to spell that word--this is a third attempt and still doesn't look right) photos and evocative snippet of a story. That blue boy sat with me all yesterday....

[deponti.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful...the words and images both!