Found Life by Linor Goralik

Author:Linor Goralik
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LCO014000, Literary Collections/Russian & Former Soviet Union, POE016000, Poetry/Russian & Former Soviet Union
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2017-11-28T05:00:00+00:00

THE FLYING RIDGE OF CLOUDS IS THINNING

“Don’t get mad,” she said, “but this just won’t work.”

He chewed on his lip and looked at her seriously, beautifully, and she felt another burst of tenderness toward him, and also a burst of despair.

“I didn’t think we were working on anything here,” he said, and she, who had heard this phrase (or something like it) probably eight hundred times, smiled and said:

“Well, what do you know.”

They started to walk along the cloud, and he kept chewing on his lips and making as if to scoop something up with his arms, gather it into a pile and then maybe arrange it in the correct order, but of course, nothing could be arranged.

“Let me explain,” she said. “Only you have to promise not to laugh.”

He kept looking at her in the same sullen way, and she said:

“So there’s this one song. My son was very upset—you know, back then. And he wanted to do something. And he asked them to play that song in the church, and said, ‘Now no matter where it plays, this song will be playing for you.”

They turned and walked along the wind, and she drew her hand along the wind, like a child draws its mittened hand across untouched snow on a railing.

“So,” he asked, “does it?”

“No,” she said.

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