The Blue Buick by B. H. Fairchild
Author:B. H. Fairchild
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
And kingdoms
naked in the
trembling heart—
Te Deum laudamus
O Thou Hand of Fire
So I’ve forgotten nothing, but if I had,
I would still remember this: one evening after
working late to finish out a load of drill pipe
when Maria drove up as usual to take us home
but made us wait in the car with the headlights on.
So we waited, high beams bright as stage lights against
the big front door in the midnight dark. We heard
the electric lift begin to hum as the door rose
slowly to reveal, inside, Maria in her white slip.
No music. Just wind pushing bunchgrass against
a stack of cold roll and the rattle of a strip
of tin siding somewhere. And she began to dance.
Against a backdrop of iron and steel, looming hulks
of lathes and drill presses, tools scattered in the grease
and dirt, this still lithe, slim, small-boned creature
began to move silently, just the dry, eggshell
shuffle of her feet against the floor, began to glide,
leaping, spinning, rising, settling like a paper
tossed and floating in a breeze. I saw her then the way
young men must have seen Isadora Duncan once,
the first time. And I remember thinking, so this
is how it was, had been, for her on stage in Paris
or California when there was a future in her life.
The idling engine made the headlights shudder
so her body shimmered in a kind of silver foam,
and then turning quickly in a sweeping motion
into the center of the light, she stopped, froze,
head lifted in profile, wide-eyed, looking astonished
and a little fearful, a face that I had seen before,
and late that night I found it in my Gombrich’s:
the orphan girl, by Delacroix. And I can tell you
that since that evening it’s the face I’ve looked for
in every woman that I’ve known.
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