A Self-portrait

“A poet is a bearer of truth, someone who feels the world with extraordinary depth, who distills sensory impressions into an anguish capable of shaking the heart. As for me, I’m nothing more than a liar.” At half past five on a December evening, by the roadside beside a field, the winter sun stains the sky a deep violet. Chanon cannot see the face of the person he is speaking to, yet he knows that everything is about to begin—or perhaps come to an end. A relationship between two men and one woman is falling into crisis. A quiet friendship is sharpened by sarcasm, while memories, scrambled like a Rubik’s Cube, have thrown their lives into turmoil for more than a decade. “