Behindlings by Nicola Barker

Author:Nicola Barker [Barker, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780007397037
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2011-10-27T06:00:00+00:00

Fine to brag about the horse

But it was different in fact

Nearly died in that cold night

Not brave

Not outrageous

Not clever…

Oh that beautiful pony

Velvet belly –

New-dead –

Not clever or funny

No

Only–

Only pathetic

Like the judge had said

Nobody ever remembered the bad…

Brother Christopher

Bright summer morning

Such blackness inside of it

So much dark inside of it

Remember the warm –

Daughter

The warm –

Horse

The warm –Christopher

Warm –velvet –closeness

Wesley suddenly pushed the nails on his good hand into the flesh on the palm of his bad. Five nails. Felt them cutting. Celebrated the wound –

The absence

The absences

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