Undersong by Kathleen Winter

Author:Kathleen Winter [Winter, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2021-08-17T00:00:00+00:00

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On the bat’s back I do fly

James, when you leave the presence of our garden, whether you go indoors to Rydal Mount or travel as Rotha and her brother and Mary did to behold cities, or strive to raise your sister Penny from the dead…once you leave off touching the land with your own feet and hands and senses…once you leave our influence…

Have you beseeched your pillow as to what you, or Penny, or Rotha, or I, Sycamore, can do against brutality, except withstand it?

What does it mean to withstand?

Brutality’s weapon is the lie that it is stronger than our withstanding. As if withstanding has no power. No. In our presence brutality is pathetic, dwindling. Withstanding is our glory. Our conversation is eternal dignity. We are the realm of life.

Remember that, James, when you imagine yourself bereft.

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