Imaginary Museums by Nicolette Polek

Author:Nicolette Polek [Polek, Nicolette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781593765866
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2019-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

Slovak

SCENERIES

Sabbatical

Oh good, you made it . . . come under the umbrella. I’ll show you the property first, then you can unpack your things and dry your feet. When it rains, it rains . . . as they say . . .

This is the front yard . . . the house is there . . . through the fog. There are pear trees and plums . . . black-currant vines . . . in the summer you should trim them, so they don’t grow wild.

The front path is over here . . . it cuts into the neighbor’s yard. There he is . . . Boris . . . Boris! . . . He doesn’t speak much, but he knows a few English phrases from touring with his metal band . . . and he has a goat, Bucket . . . who’s standing on the enormous pile of firewood over there . . . sometimes he gets up onto the ladders . . . they make him feel tall, as though he owns the land. Once I drove into town without noticing that he’d hopped up onto the roof of the car . . . all the villagers pointed, dropped their bread, as if I were sailing a flamed chariot through the hills . . .

It gets tricky finding the place at night . . . without lights . . . but you’ll know you’re close when you hear Bucket bleating, which he does . . . all night. It’s like his song for the stars. The dark is also good for eating figs from the tree. Then, you can’t see the bugs . . . inside . . .

Here’s the river that carries the trash from town . . . you should remove the detritus that drifts onto the bank . . . Across the river is an abandoned auto salvage yard. Lizards live there now . . . but it’s worth a dig, you never know . . . maybe you’ll find some stray euros under the seats . . . a costume . . . or a love letter . . .

I was wondering . . . if you climb around out there and find a knife with a thin jade handle . . . could you dispose of it, under the oak tree? That is where I bury all the things that need burying . . . you may do the same.

The Blue Woods are all around us . . . see those tall pines up there? They’re good woods for hikes, tricky sometimes. It’s best to go when the sun rises so you have the whole day . . . to find your way back. The carpenter’s daughter’s shoes were found up there . . . there were footsteps that trailed in circles until they stopped . . . at a pair of white sneakers . . . as though she were plucked straight up into the sky . . .

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