That Eye, the Sky by Tim Winton

Author:Tim Winton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781742537382
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

‘The first Christmas we were married, I wanted a Christmas tree,’ Mum is saying as I sneak up the side of the house. ‘Sam couldn’t understand why, and anyway there was nothing like that around here then. That was before they tried re-foresting down near Bankside with all that crappy pine. Christmas Eve I come into the lounge and there in the corner is a sunflower in a bucket of sand, decorated with old pieces of foil and bottle tops. Oh, I cried. I really love him, you know. People say they don’t know what love is. Everyone says it now. They’re scared to know. I’d suffer for him and be humiliated for him. I’d be ashamed for him and let people hate me for him. I have and still will. People don’t want to know love. They might have to get dirty.’

Then she goes quiet, like she’s said a whole lot more than she thought she would. I can hear Dad’s slow awake whistle. Henry Warburton’s shadow grows out across the dirt of the yard. He must be standing up at the edge of the verandah with the inside light behind him.

‘Yes,’ he says, just loud enough to hear. ‘You’re close to things, Alice. Close to all things.’

‘And what does that mean ?’

‘Hmm? Oh, sorry. Nothing. I’m just waxing a bit lyrical tonight.’

‘Oh.’ She doesn’t sound sure.

All of a sudden I’m real tired. This talk is way over. I climb back in real slow, pushing the curtains and the flywire away, holding the tools real tight so they don’t chink.

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