Owl of Minerva by Eric Pankey

Owl of Minerva by Eric Pankey

Author:Eric Pankey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00


PARABLE WITH MY FATHER AS A BOY

He woke at an hour the church bells no longer strike. At that porous border between night and morning, he gleaned windfall, russet to rose, all pocked and blemished, and pressed it to a winey, tin-edged cider. He foraged for seeds and nuts, dug up tubers. Hung the whitetail from the rafters and slit its throat; its blood ticktocked into a galvanized pail.

All this before his sisters woke and pestered him: Why has the milk soured? Is that the Adversary stealing our nanny goat? Only yesterday, while you napped, he sowed tares in the field!



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