Offend understood bare“Did he collect stamps?” she added. “Did he play softball?” The news hit me like a bucket of cold water. Finally the intensity of my session with Myron was flushed away. “Oh, aye. A bird that sings to Gabriel. Probably the same creature who killed poor Devon.” DK: One last question about the Antelope Valley. I promise it’ll be the last. You’re so energetic, my dear. I almost feel like I need to tie you down. Unluckily, a young backpacker, a foreigner in a red down jacket, witnesses my mockery, and his southern face screws up from his forehead to his chin and out to his ears. I smile to show him that I can do that as well. Flower arrangements had arrived by the dozens. Huge frames of every color and kind. These concealed the seats next to the podium and I went back there to hide from the growing crowd. Turk broke Theon’s arm, jaw, and ankle, but my husband saved that girl and helped her move back to Amherst, Massachusetts, where she’d been born. On a moss-covered lava rock by the side of the road sits a man I can’t quite place, though I know he’s a distant relative. He’s gesticulating, talking to himself. “You can tell whether or not the dough was kneaded by hand,” he said. “My mom always does this thing where, after she rolls out the dough, she slaps it between her palms, back and forth, back and forth, for no reason at all other than to get her skin on it.” ‘Do us a favour an pop open the glove compartment for me there.’ A crumhorn, here? These are Dietrich Bacon’s first words. He looks around in fear, as if expecting to be ambushed and set upon by the instrument. “It must have been terrible to feel like you were losin’ your fam’ly one at a time,” I said. The liquor had affected my words. My mother’s tongue was speaking for me. “You really believe that?” They’ve served you well enough, those thighs!” She asked no questions.“There is one in the library. I could copy it by hand.” A skein of geese flew overhead, low enough to hear their wings, and they paused until the birds glided onto the river. Iz ahbsolutely right to leave ze gank. She maybe vill be goot. Und Tjurfinna und Ing?lfur, zey ahre one of a kind. “You were a child.” Are you melancholy, my dear? asks Arnbjartur.. |