The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne

Author:Monica Byrne [Byrne, Monica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-8041-3885-7
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2014-05-19T16:00:00+00:00

One morning I throw up from too much sun exposure and too little water. Only some thick, pasty idlee vomit dissipated by the waves and snapped up by fish.

I play a game, trying to discern exactly when the sky becomes lighter. I try to define the threshold of non-ambiguity—is it when I can see the hair on my forearms? Is it when I can begin to see color? I stop walking and just stand still, moving up and down. Which colors are the first to appear?

I turn around to face the east. I relish sunrises. Every single sunrise is the greatest show on earth. I want to intuit the very instant the sun first appears. I’ll say Now whenever I think it’s coming. I say it low under my breath, “Now,” but it’s much too early. I get quieter. I stand absolutely still, and watch, and listen, and then whisper, “Now,” and the live coal appears.

I once said to Mohini, Motherless children are addicted to beauty.

When I sleep, I dream a corporeal companion to the usual dream of finding new rooms in one’s house: I discover new limbs on my body. First I sprout wings from my shoulders. Then three penises grow between my legs, long enough to become legs themselves, so I spin like a starfish. Extra arms bud from my flanks. I become a dancing Shiva, rolling up and down a rippling cloth but never moving forward.

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