Little Houses, Big Forests by Siouxzi Connor

Author:Siouxzi Connor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Little Houses, Big Forests
ISBN: 9781910924907
Publisher: JCS Publishing Services
Published: 2016-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Venturing from the river under the nurturing coat of night,

following the intensifying scent of smoke.

After seemingly endless tracts of forest,

finally ruins of two small wooden houses sprung up into sight.

Dark wooden shells they were,

burnt out and caved in under the weight of many snows, many storms. The forest had taken its own back with new firs and ferns dwelling inside. Their harrowed shells conjured memories of earlier times

when all was, presumably, full of life and thriving.

Perhaps many bodies lived here, singing and working,

gathering and scribbling down all they knew so nothing was lost.

Warm bread, children laughing and skipping through the washing lines, long hair being brushed. The head, the body was flooded by images, sounds, smells of these times here. But this was impossible.

How could the body bring back such memories?

Non-existent memories from a time before remembering.

Shaking the head free of these impossibilities,

moving further in towards where the voices had come from

and where the smoke was coming from, now all was still.

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