The Painted Bed by Donald Hall

Author:Donald Hall
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780547347059
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2003-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

in nineteen twenty-nine; beside it the wicker highchair

where my mother and two years later her sister Caroline

gummed their toast; alongside, another highchair, smaller

and older still, that fitted my grandmother Kate, born

in the north bedroom in eighteen seventy-eight.

In February

seven-foot-deep snowfields will reflect a sky “as blue,”

my grandfather said, “as the seat of a Dutchman’s pants.”

When Gus leaps, running in snow, he will pause in the air

as if I dreamed him, and dry powder scatter in flurries

where he lands on the moondust snow.

When we first

moved in, we looped cable around the tilting saphouse,

tied it to an eight-cylinder four-wheel-drive GMC pickup

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