Afterglow: A Dog Memoir by Eileen Myles

Author:Eileen Myles [Myles, Eileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dogs, Writers -- Non-Fiction, Uploaded to MyAnonamouse
ISBN: 9781611855142
Publisher: Atlantic
Published: 2018-01-31T13:00:00+00:00

Look at these little wands I have. Like letters. Bubbles on a stick.

Joan reminded me of soap pipes. This is in the forties and fifties. You would have a pipe and your mother would supply you with a bowl of soapy water and you filled your pipe and sat at a table blowing bubbles out of it, streams of soap bubbles pouring down. Not hair but smoke, that was the sign of the adult. Pouring out of their nostrils, drifting from their hands as they spoke. Lighting up when they got together. Sharing a light. Got a match. Think of the magic of that intimate sharing. The bending, cupping and smiling. Cigarettes in bed. On the plane. Opening the jacket. Now the smokers are all outside. Shall we join them?

My dream is that history is backwards. What if I’m born of him, Cronus—of his anger and his drunkenness and the ripe destruction of his father’s weapons. I’m for it. And I know these men.

This myth might take the story back. When I was a little kid we went to a beach called Stage Fort Park in Gloucester just like on over-cast days. It was foggy and I was always dreaming of my little men. I feel I was born there. The beach was a dream all covered in fat brown seaweed and these rubber balls I thought grew naturally there and I feel I could almost hear my boyfriends wandering and whispering. Blinking and vanishing. My family was always in such a rush. We didn’t have time. Can we go back there and find him. He has to be there. I keep looking in the spray and mist for him, my son.

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