Intercourse by Robert Olen Butler

Author:Robert Olen Butler
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781843447535
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Published: 2015-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

MARIA

at the bottom landing of the Grand Staircase he swept me into his arms without a word and we looked each other in the eyes—we had seen each other’s faces for such a little time—our true faces and not just photographs, not just the faces we put on sitting twice in my parents’ parlor—and I did not know Victor de Satode Peñasco y Castellana to be a man who would lift me as easily as a goose-down pillow and to hold me close, but he is such a man, and he began to climb and I threw my head back into the nighttime sunlight of electric lights and we climbed and a bronze cherub appeared holding a lamp and this was our floor, only one above the dining room, and I whispered Higher and he carried me up to another landing and another until all I could see were the lights in the vast dome right above me and when we reached the top of the staircase I realized that we are married also for love, and I am breathless now with him upon me and all at once I tremble, but it is not from within me, something has happened

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