Caitlin Leishman

‘A garden for the blind.’ This is how Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, describes his backyard.

This strained choreography continued agonisingly. His efforts seemed risky with the air thick and rain threatening. Each book, one at a time.

As though I’d crossed an invisible threshold and been sucked into another world…I was shopping in a life-sized doll house.

In my bedtime stories, I was the Secretary General of the United Nations. 

As he walks he holds his posture in a V shape, hinging from his hips, his torso leans back, to balance the weight of the huge stomach that cantilevers over his legs.