![]() ![]() ![]() Physical pain always sharpens the awareness. Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. I washed down some pills with warm water and realized (quite calmly) that hiding would be impossible. One night almost two months later, when the season’s chill was just beginning to bite, a migraine set in, viciously familiar. I came abroad in August, to this country I’d never visited before, got a short-term lease on an apartment in its capital, and learned to draw out my days in these strange environs. This was difficult to answer, so I left the list as it was and put off anything more. Could I let myself hide between these sentences, veiled with white gauze? If I sift those words through myself, sentences will shiver out, like the strange, sad shriek the bow draws from a metal string. ![]()
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