Damages
So I’d been wrong. There was no respite
there was no safety, now or here
go back to bed and stay there.
hurt this much. My eyes ached as though
counting grains of sand by candle light.
Even in bed there seemed to be
sometimes do something I suppose
crawled back in the bed, my face
draped me across his chest and
and said, I wanted to get married, now, and
of this war, I couldn’t bear it
Shh, he said. Yes. As soon as he was
it would be any day now, we would
drive away, “into the dawn,” he said,
I got so still he studied my face and asked,
“I’m just trying to see it,” I said.
“Do you ride them facing backwards, or do they
gallop backwards, like in the movies when they put
“I’ll have to study up on that one,” he said,
“and I’ll require some food to fuel my fires while I do.
Come on, kid, let’s go et somethin’.”
“Okay,” I said, the memory of hunger in my mind
Comments
0 Comments on the whole page
Leave a comment on the whole page
0 Comments on paragraph 1
Leave a comment on paragraph 1
0 Comments on paragraph 2
Leave a comment on paragraph 2
0 Comments on paragraph 3
Leave a comment on paragraph 3
0 Comments on paragraph 4
Leave a comment on paragraph 4
0 Comments on paragraph 5
Leave a comment on paragraph 5
0 Comments on paragraph 6
Leave a comment on paragraph 6
0 Comments on paragraph 7
Leave a comment on paragraph 7
0 Comments on paragraph 8
Leave a comment on paragraph 8
0 Comments on paragraph 9
Leave a comment on paragraph 9
0 Comments on paragraph 10
Leave a comment on paragraph 10
0 Comments on paragraph 11
Leave a comment on paragraph 11
0 Comments on paragraph 12
Leave a comment on paragraph 12
0 Comments on paragraph 13
Leave a comment on paragraph 13
0 Comments on paragraph 14
Leave a comment on paragraph 14
0 Comments on paragraph 15
Leave a comment on paragraph 15
0 Comments on paragraph 16
Leave a comment on paragraph 16
0 Comments on paragraph 17
Leave a comment on paragraph 17
0 Comments on paragraph 18
Leave a comment on paragraph 18
0 Comments on paragraph 19
Leave a comment on paragraph 19
0 Comments on paragraph 20
Leave a comment on paragraph 20
0 Comments on paragraph 21
Leave a comment on paragraph 21
0 Comments on paragraph 22
Leave a comment on paragraph 22
0 Comments on paragraph 23
Leave a comment on paragraph 23
0 Comments on paragraph 24
Leave a comment on paragraph 24
0 Comments on paragraph 25
Leave a comment on paragraph 25
0 Comments on paragraph 26
Leave a comment on paragraph 26
0 Comments on paragraph 27
Leave a comment on paragraph 27
0 Comments on paragraph 28
Leave a comment on paragraph 28
0 Comments on paragraph 29
Leave a comment on paragraph 29
0 Comments on paragraph 30
Leave a comment on paragraph 30
0 Comments on paragraph 31
Leave a comment on paragraph 31
0 Comments on paragraph 32
Leave a comment on paragraph 32
0 Comments on paragraph 33
Leave a comment on paragraph 33
0 Comments on paragraph 34
Leave a comment on paragraph 34
0 Comments on paragraph 35
Leave a comment on paragraph 35
0 Comments on paragraph 36
Leave a comment on paragraph 36
0 Comments on paragraph 37
Leave a comment on paragraph 37
0 Comments on paragraph 38
Leave a comment on paragraph 38
0 Comments on paragraph 39
Leave a comment on paragraph 39
0 Comments on paragraph 40
Leave a comment on paragraph 40
0 Comments on paragraph 41
Leave a comment on paragraph 41
0 Comments on paragraph 42
Leave a comment on paragraph 42
0 Comments on paragraph 43
Leave a comment on paragraph 43
0 Comments on paragraph 44
Leave a comment on paragraph 44
0 Comments on paragraph 45
Leave a comment on paragraph 45
0 Comments on paragraph 46
Leave a comment on paragraph 46
0 Comments on paragraph 47
Leave a comment on paragraph 47
0 Comments on paragraph 48
Leave a comment on paragraph 48
0 Comments on paragraph 49
Leave a comment on paragraph 49
0 Comments on paragraph 50
Leave a comment on paragraph 50
0 Comments on paragraph 51
Leave a comment on paragraph 51
0 Comments on paragraph 52
Leave a comment on paragraph 52
0 Comments on paragraph 53
Leave a comment on paragraph 53
0 Comments on paragraph 54
Leave a comment on paragraph 54