One can’t help admiring their rickety grace and old-world feathers like seasoned boardwalk planks. They pass in silent pairs, as if a long time ago they had wearied of calling out. The wind tips them, their ungainly, light-brown weight, into a prehistoric wobble, wings’-end fingers stretching from fingerless gloves, necks slightly tucked and stiff, peering forward and down, like old couples arm in arm on icy sidewalks, careful, careful…… More »
How to know when to cry out? At the incipient prickle of doubt mistaken for a subtle rise in temperature? Or at the doubt after that, threatening to affirm your most miserable surmise? Or when more insidious doubts start multiplying—start to dance and surge chaotically like sperm, too speedy and paisley to chart? Or on the first panicky glance at the vast hall that once was crowded, the barely hearable gasp and soft stumble of the one beside…… More »
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