John the Posthumous by Schwartz Jason

Author:Schwartz, Jason [Schwartz, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: FIC019000
ISBN: 9781939293220
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2013-07-31T20:00:00+00:00

The wagon at the hanging: this is no longer on the wall. And now we have the rats and the ants and the way the door sticks, even in winter. That makes up a day. But what about those nights when the shade is made to produce a sound like this one? All those lovely worries in the hallway, and the wire on the platter. As the hour passes. Or wears on, to be precise, until the lights go out.

The colors may recall the walls of your childhood room.

Wall hornets, in cathedrals, would conceal murals and the like—and were, on occasion, mistaken for inscriptions. But elsewhere, in a brown house, years later, there were only rows of coats in an entrance hall.

I touch it five times, the line on the wall—just west of the sconce and just east of the door. On the other side of which, yes, one’s wife stands in her nighttime attire.

In the photographs from that year: you can see the son at the window, but never the daughter.

I count again the number of nails, up and down. The banister flatters the paneling, as the molding flatters the frame. The wallpaper has a dark border, the vines disguising the animals.

In castles, perhaps, bones were stacked to build walls—atop which you might see crosses, painted black to resemble those figurines once stationed at table in place of departed fathers.

A sledgehammer and a crowbar will do quite nicely in removing a bedroom wall.

The clock atop the lowboy: this has a skeleton dial. The mirror cuts the door in two. Do you imagine someone in the house? And now one anchor follows another, a little drawing on a shelf. Or a knife and a knife, and then a ruined hat. But this is foolish of me. I know that—I do. Take away the shade, after all, and we have nine panes, the socket, the channel, and the stop.

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