Things That Fall by Denise Desautels

Author:Denise Desautels [Desautels, Denise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, memory, song, anecdote, family, childhood, living and dying
ISBN: 9781550713732
Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc
Published: 2014-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

Suddenly their Medusa gaze

This evening, you’re not lending me your hand; you stay at a distance, untouchable corpse, perched atop your patch of false sky. Up above, as they say, in the elegance of the air, you play at solving the enigmas between our old silences, seizing and piercing the ineffable, whereas, at the forefront, on this side of the world, a thin-skinned memory moves ahead. Its images flow through me, cinematic. Juxtaposed portraits of women, head-to-toe, one exceptional evening, one stormy evening. It’s amazing how they resemble us, these women, isolated in the middle of their bodies. We have already had their eyes, their hands, their mouths – remember, my butterfly –and even their furor. Head on or in profile, brutally, they resemble us. Really are us. Despite the veil that, at first glance, covers the one, the one that is you. I see them in the light, face to face. With their restrained gestures. First, one word, just one, a little nothing, a caprice tossed out into the void with no net, a“why?,”a“really?,”and the light shrinks back. Shaken by the impact of a few sounds, the light. Carelessly, a little nothing with, in its center, a hard pit, still secret, a lead marble that will surely show up in the end, which they will toss back and forth, the one and the other, between two lapses of silence, out of defiance, fatigue, fear, cowardice or this sort of prodigious dismay,

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