“The years have flown”
Montage #6
21 June 2019
“The years have flown and there at the same places as then you sit in the bloom of adulthood bathed in rainbow light gazing before you. She is late.
“The years have flown and there at the same places as then you sit in the bloom of adulthood bathed in rainbow light gazing before you. She is late.
“They come with fruitcakes. Brown-skin nylons. Leatherette shoes. Mammy I have to go to the toilet.
“The shadowless light. Simply to be gone. Or for affair as now. A single leg appears. Seen from above. You separate the segments and lay them side by side. It is as you half surmised. The upper is the longer …
“Come running by the lake. Eyes mist to the wind feel the fresh rush past. That new day it’s so early in the morning. I step there. Cool and cold and colder.
“Knowing from experience that the height or length you have in common is the sum of equal segments.
“First the body. No. First the place. No. First both.
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