I, Bartleby

Author:Meredith Quartermain [Quartermain, Meredith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christine Stewart, short stories, Chinese characters, prosody, orientalism, Daphne Marlatt, Malcolm Lowry, Poetry, Fiction, Canadian Fiction, scrivener
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 2015-05-14T21:00:00+00:00

She paused on the trail and took a breath. Don’t look back. Don’t look down. Don’t look up at the fire tower on top of the mountain where she’d scattered the ashes of her mother – reaching her hand into the plastic bag inside the pottery urn Mom had kept on her shelf. Scooping up in her fingers grey dust and small pieces of bone. To fling out over the heads of fireweed and lupine and daisies as Mom had said she wanted, not feeling, when she said it, this nothingness of self as dust – the dust that had been her mother clinging to her jeans and boots. Breathing the dust that had been her, had made her.

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