I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.
I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.
I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.
My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.
Oh Constance, we are so happy.
On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.
There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.
We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.
We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.
We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.
Wear your boots if you wander today
You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?
A pretty sight, a lady with a book.
All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us.
Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.
I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.
I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.
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