I’ve been lying in the dark for days. It will help you breathe better, comes a voice from the corner of the room. A honeyed light silently blooms, the shadows vanish. My eyes scrape open. I do not want the shadows gone. I try to remember the last time I slept in swathes and not…
Tag: Flavia Brunetti
Strawberries
I bought strawberries today. Every day, she picks one thing, a single occurrence, polishes it painstakingly in her head like a rolling marble until, by nightfall, she can present it to him, magnified and encased. Turned over as a token, whispered over the phone line that stretches between them, so that there is no silence. …
For you to Stay
If I could have lobbied the gods for you to stay,I would have sunk to my knees.Asked them to choose any price.Diamonds and gold and dignity forjust one change: all the times I was too tired,too impatient,turn them to kindness. And if their glacial eyes did not seem too shocked, I would add,let me remember to…