The Displaced of Capital by Anne Winters

Author:Anne Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

IX

But then you stopped answering the phone, went

less often to church. What I thought

was that you were angry (certainly I was). Perhaps

I thought you needed to talk, and I'd visit you

in Manhattan. So one morning in March,

in the black coat I'd got for the funeral, I walked east

from the forty-second street Lexington stop

to the three-story, fairy-lit jungle atrium

of the Tricontinental, and went to the seventh floor,

where you started. There was a cart in the hall,

a gleaming chrome maid's cart half-projecting

from a bedroom. On its sides were rows

of glasses with lace sani-bonnets, gold-

stamped mini-soaps and deodorants. It moved out,

and you stood in the door with a sheet-load, looking fat

in a starchy pink uniform monogrammed

pilar. When you saw me, you dropped the sheets

and in pain, pressed both palms to your cheeks,

and looked at me looking at you. When

I started sobbing, you took my shoulder and backed me

to the elevator. Pressed the button, stepped back,

and then, to my surprise, gave me a sudden hug

before pushing me in.

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