Her shoes. The world seems to sway gently back and forth, as though the town is drifting lightly away. As though back onshore, all of France is left to bite its fingernails and flee and stumble and we...
Himmelblau,
His daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That’s how it feels right now,...
His love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.
Hurries
In the center of her forehead he can see a hole blacker than the blackness around him,
In this world, they do as they’re told, they get scared, they move about with only themselves in mind.
Is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths? That her father and Etienne and Madame Manec and the German boy named Werner Pfennig might harry the sky in flocks, like egrets, like...
Isn’t life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye—the body can...
La pomme
Lambs and rabbits; Claude buckles the meat into
Land mines explode in front
What are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die.
Smoldering skeletons of the seafront
Lunatics
Maybe her father is right: Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.
Mistakes,
Ninety-two-carat raw diamond from South
N’est pas la r
Obstacles
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