The Naomi Letters by Rachel Mennies

Author:Rachel Mennies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 2021-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

January 15, 2017

What discoveries I have made awake in the dark, what joyless shapes I have counted there.

Those nights I would descend the stairs in a single leap and sit bare-shouldered on my stoop in the biting winter.

I would hold my head in the frozen air until the fog arrived.

(One night a neighbor even joined me—are you a smoker, too he asked, his cigarette the only light between us—does your wife make you come out here and freeze, too—and I wept later in the empty room—)

What warm silence I have found here alone in the morning.

Olds calls it the stillness of the quiet / skirts of the dark, on the ground.

I reach for the light cautiously—a gift rising at my cold door.

A new lover who learns the dawn air as she reaches.

But Naomi, last night I slept.

I disappeared from my body and returned only when I was ready.

Have you brought me this impossible peace?

If you have, you mustn’t tell me—or else you mustn’t leave me—

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