“Johari’s Window” Published Novel Excerpt: Music “Cherry Blossom Girl” By “Air”

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How tranquil it was, wading ankle-deep in flowers, pink snow, cascading, tumbling down, tingeing the earthen pathways. And the sun was gentler there, the light dappled; light and shadow, soft as the color of piebald horses. Soon we will be running, you and I, kissed by the sun, running through snow - pink snow - downy cherry blossom, heralding springtime.

It is night-time in Seoul. Delicate white tracery: blossoms in clusters follow the flow of The Han River. And I am gazing over the water, down the line of the river, where it first began. The line of your torso is close against my back, your masculine hands around my waist. We're suspended above the water, silver girders shimmering and luminous wings stretching into an amethyst sky.

The trees are bedecked with snow, the air is perfumed; how sweet, how dark the sultry fragrance. Forever hypnotising, always haunting. I want to inhale the fragrance of your skin, drink from your open mouth.

The landscape is bathed in the honeyed light of morning. Sometimes the memory of winter comes again. And my days are colored reveries of you, my nights sensuous.