The Wet Collection by Joni Tevis

Author:Joni Tevis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2012-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

II.

Beyond the Wilderness

I stood in a clearing, she said, much later. Light all around, but darkness above me. Looked up and saw something falling from the sky, fast, something heavy, something dark. Too fast for me to stop. She knew it would strike. I put my arm up to cover my head, a reflex; it would do no good. Oh God, I said. And then it hit.

1.

As gunmetal clouds piled in the west, he ate his simple meal (sandwich, apple) and sheltered in the mouse-smelling dark of the hunters’ shack. Rain came hard, battering the standing corn, streaking the leaves with soupy dirt. Lightning forked over the woods, and he saw it out of the corner of his eye as he stared at that storied ground, thinking about something or other. Near the north boundary line was a spot where people said an Indian princess had been buried, and in the back field, a symmetrical hill sloped up to a shelf, then down again. People said it was a mound made for some kind of harvest ritual. He didn’t know one way or the other, but plowed it every spring and watered the shoots that grew there.

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