Holding-Off-the-Horror Things |
Five palm-sized, river stones. Her fingers kneading my ear, working its whorls slowly outward. A subway car full of faces, each one exceeding every name in the world. Indigo. Crows at work dividing the world into dull and shiny. A little boy off the sidewalk in the alcove of a store, looking at himself in the huge windows shouting and whirling, jumping and strutting. The peeling-the-orange festival of fragrance and moist color. |
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