Bold Type: Short Story by Maxine Swann
Ξ March 31st, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
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- ... Around the house there are briar patches with berries and thorns. There are gnarled apple trees with puckered gray skins. The windows are all open--the wasps are flying in. The clothes on the line are jumping like children with no heads but hysterical limbs. Who will drown the fresh new kitties? Who will chain-saw the trees and cut the firewood in winter and haul that firewood in? Who will do away with all these animals, or tend them, or sell them, kill them one by one? Who will say to her in the evening that it all means nothing, that tomorrow will be different, that the heart gets tired after all? And where are the children? When will they come home? She has burnt all her diaries. She has told the man in the barn to go away. Who will remind her again that the heart has its own misunderstandings? And the heart often loses its way and can be found hours later wandering down passageways with unexplained bruises on its skin. On the roof, there was a child standing one day years ago, his arms waving free, but one foot turned inward, weakly-- When will it be evening? When will it be night? The tree frogs are beginning to sing ...
