Tatterdemalion by Sylvia V Linsteadt

Author:Sylvia V Linsteadt [Linstead, Sylvia V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783523726
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2017-05-09T04:00:00+00:00

I KNOW, MY WIND-WORN FRIENDS, MY HAWK-EYED LADIES, THAT THE story of Anja Born of the Buckeye is a household standard, a lullaby for your wrinkly mewling babes, your restless six year olds, the ditty you sing while scrubbing your pants in the creek or gathering twigs for the fire. It’s that sweet story we use to make us happy, when sad ghosts pick up and walk the cracked Highways before dawn; when women with the hunched backs of grizzlies come out of their tunnels and take, now and then, a line of laundry, a pet dog, a wayward daughter. You tell yourselves the sweet song of Anja because sometimes you wish for Before, when the Tool Sheds stood, when cracks in the sidewalks had not been pried open, when the souls of all wild things were still in forced hibernation. Because you know by now, my sorry lot of fools, that living in a world where rocks have wants and will trip you up with a cane of quartz, a cackle, if you ignore their desires, is exhausting work, and quite unsettling. It might be easier to just go to sleep, to shut it out, to stop listening. You find you can understand how things got to be so, before they Broke, and sometimes you long for those times, and so you tell yourselves the happy story of Anja, to make it easier, to make it worthwhile, to smooth over the bumps. Because it is sweet, and it is pleasing, like the new salmonberry blossoms, such a dark pink.

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