Beautiful Soon Enough by Margo Berdeshevsky

Author:Margo Berdeshevsky
Format: epub

The distance mumbles: its stones passing, crossing one another, on the road. There are no-wheres. Everywhere.

Ok, blonde. Ok, fifty.

Ok solo.

PHILOMEL

She arrived on the scene at first light; an animal hunting a familiar scent.

It had begun in an alley after the snow drifts had covered all that was there before last night. In ancient Rome, the central arenas had been strewn with sand, to soak up the blood. Here was a cement sea studded with islands of unknown footsteps. It was only quiet, and white, and secreted.

She wasn't thinking of she-wolves and old legends of this gladiators' city now. Not of wolves. And not of children. And not of their suckling. She was thinking of a man who had been between her legs two nights before. Eager as a poem. Now a snow had covered his last cry and only she could feel it, ramming her. Now the beautiful. Or the blade attached to it. She knew that she would not see him again. And that there was no one to hurt in return. No one to mourn with either.

She permitted herself to accompany his last circle. His walk. His breath, greying under variable stars, dimming. Her eyes on the snow. An exercise, with her breath. To keep it from stuttering. She knelt to the spot and she began gathering fists of the snow into an uncertain, undefined shape at first. She didn't know how to make a golem.

The dark sun rose. After it was built.

And she lay down into its scraped bed.

Still singing. A nightingale with its heart like a cut tongue. Her legs open, pleading.

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