Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann

Author:T Fleischmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2019-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

… Ice is not a pellucid thing, but a disarray of fissures and air. Is not something that is cold but is something that is frozen and feels cold when your hand presses down upon it, then later seems warm to your hand. Is not quiet but is loud and is not a color but is several colors at once. Is not vulnerable nor dangerous, but might be one day a flood after sunlight, or a weight so heavy it moves itself, and carves smaller the earth …

… Ice on old wood makes me want to lick it, to feel the grainy stuck part of the wood and the smooth part of the ice. Tongue might stick. Wood grain swirls into itself like ice freezes into its water, and when the dew of morning settles in the dented weaves of wood the dew freezes to little crystals. Cedar has that shimmer, too, when it is first cut and sappy purple. A big old building as big as a barn in the center of a cold town gets covered in ice crystals every winter morning, months on end, and you would need to scrape at its wood with your fingernail to break …

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