Hurried vacation reminiscent‘My Higher Power is there to restore me.’ “What time is it?” I asked. Outside, the sky was still dark. silver sea The meeting was scheduled for the 24th of June at one o’clock in a pub on the busy main street of Blanchardstown, the heartland of the Minister’s constituency. I remember that the man was late. The Minister was a full three pints late by the metronomic stroke of Hickey’s drinking arm, which lifted and lowered his glass to beat out time. The friend begs us to take the dress back. The next day the angel appears who had been unable to sleep thinking of her friend’s dress. Have you ever talked about it with him? “No,” I said. “What about you, Lloyd? You writing anything?” ‘Why have you returned here?’ Tiptoeing plovers are the antithesis to incapacitated fulmar chicks. Living birds are the liveliest of all that lives, but a dead bird is the deadest of all that was. ‘It is. Do you think he’d talk with an English accent?’ After a few moments he reached for the rear-view mirror and adjusted it slowly till he saw her. The whole room, stage and seating, was brightly lit. There were carpenters and painters banging, sawing, and painting on the set. Jude was standing to the side of the slightly elevated stage, looking at the work with a serious eye. When I walked in he seemed to sense my presence and turned to look at me. “To equate a Rebel soldier with Nazis is ridiculous,” said the principal in his prerecorded interview. “Rebels fought for freedom, you see, and Hitler fought for power. Anyone who knows history understands states’ rights and dictatorships are like Chinese food and cheese — totally incompatible.” So would I. The shadow of the boom swung over my grave again and I shuddered.Tocka tocka. So would I. How could I not have visited your fjord? “It was not him,” Duncan said again. “He slept beside me and never rose.” “What happened?” Now I put on sunglasses, as is suitable in so much light, and start arranging our provisions on a little tablecloth that I embroidered with care in home economics class, before putting it aside for a time, and finally finishing it just before Edda was born. ONCE THERE WAS A PREGNANT CHILD WHO KEPT STITCHING A FULLY STITCHED TABLECLOTH.. |