How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons by Kingsolver Barbara

Author:Kingsolver, Barbara [Kingsolver, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: poetry, Adult, Contemporary, Travel
ISBN: 9780062993083
Amazon: 0062993089
Goodreads: 49867447
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2020-08-04T07:00:00+00:00

Creation Stories

The Christmas she was five, I stayed up

until first light making boots, of all things,

the very pair the brave girl wore

in her storybook. She wanted no other thing.

Leather and needle-punctured

palms, inventing skills I didn’t have,

cuffing and embroidering, cursing

an illustrator whose tools were ink

and fancy while I had rawhide:

well, that was the year of the boots

worn everywhere but bath and bed.

A story made real. The year she believed

in Santa Claus, she said, Because

no regular person could do that.

Years later, she longed for the jacket

all the cool girls had. My ways and means

couldn’t stitch that one together. I hoped

a luxury denied might be the travail

a brave girl pressed in her memory book,

instead of the rest: my long-held breath

for those years we had to go it alone

without support, the miles from family,

the making of her everything in the place

where life had nailed us down to nothing.

Now she is a mother herself.

No regular person. She knows the work

of a life is the making of things a child will

not believe we could have made. Because.

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