Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin

Author:Ethan Canin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ah, I remember well (and how can I

But evermore remember well) when first

She pauses, squint-eyed, working her lips. It is a pause of only faint understanding. Then she continues:

Our flame began, when scarce we knew what was

The flame we felt.

When she finishes she refolds the paper precisely. “That’s it,” she says. “That’s one of them.”

At the aquarium I sit, circled by glass and, behind it, the senseless eyes of fish. I have never written a word of my own poetry but can recite the verse of others. This is the culmination of a life. Coryphaena hippurus, says the plaque on the dolphin’s tank, words more beautiful than any of my own. The dolphin circles, circles, approaches with alarming speed, but takes no notice of, if he even sees, my hands. I wave them in front of his tank. What must he think has become of the sea? He turns and his slippery proboscis nudges the glass. I am every part sore from life.

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