tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51340940962476065162023-11-16T07:58:04.238-08:00written by siân.Sianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18218916710714137338noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134094096247606516.post-43497374105825697422016-11-07T09:39:00.000-08:002016-11-08T01:19:34.618-08:00Prosopagnosia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<br />
does this work on my own face<br />
like<br />
I can remember other people<br />
but I can't remember myself<br />
and this means<br />
looking in the mirror<br />
is always a bit of a shock<br />
<br />
<br />
because<br />
I can't imagine <i>that</i> girl<br />
unable to talk<br />
or<br />
like<br />
ever being<br />
unable to stand alone in the street<br />
without her hands holding onto<br />
something safe<br />
inside her pockets<br />
<br />
<br />Sianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18218916710714137338noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134094096247606516.post-32170604190592058082016-11-07T03:16:00.000-08:002016-11-07T03:22:40.856-08:00Loneliness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<br />
like listening<br />
to other people<br />
live their lives<br />
through country-thick walls<br />
and all I feel<br />
is a silence<br />
<br />
because<br />
<br />
I can't remember<br />
how the words go<br />
and they keep<br />
stacking up the bricks<br />
between us.
<br />
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">IN. Eeny meeny miny moe catch a tiger by the toe if she hollers let her go eeny
meeny miny moe. Gasp. Ena mena mona mite bascalora bora bite hugga bucca
bow wow eggs butter cheese bread stick stock stone dead. OUT. Think of
swimming think of water think of bread. Brown bread. Think of the tiger.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The tiger is watching me. She always watches me. She watches me swim in the
lake with no fish in, which is how I know that I am the target. I am always the
target.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Eeenie meenie tipsy toe olla bolla domino.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am the target because I can’t remember how to breathe underwater. The tiger
remembers this every time, and she circles the lake in smooth anticipation.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Eeenie meenie moany mite butter lather boney strike.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">When she pounces she pushes me down, further down into the water. My hands
try and hold on to the bubbles they create but I know they'll burst before they do. I'm destined to sink and I sink every time.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stick stock stone dead out.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Think of grass think of sunburn think of smiling. The water roars around me as I
plunge further and further into it. My feet scramble when they find the sandy
lake-base below but the tiger still pushes my head down. My knees buckle and
then that’s it. I'm crouching at the lowest point with my toes dug into the sand
and my palms pressing into the lake’s base like they’re trying to force it open. I
never think I can get any lower. But I always know that the tiger is not finished.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Eeenie meenie moany mote butter lather boney strike hair bit frost nack harrico
barrico we wo crack.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The paws about my neck confirm that I’m drowning. The tiger knows I forget to
breathe here but she wants to hurry the process along a little.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We wo crack.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I lie against the lake-base with the weight of two dry or one sodden tiger on top
of me.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We wo crack.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It doesn't matter anymore that I forget how to breathe. The sand beneath me
keeps forgetting its shape.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We wo crack.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A tiger’s eye looks down at me with my head burying itself into the sand. I hate to
look at it but I have to. I have to work out which are her arms and which are her
legs.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Eeny meeny miny moe catch a tiger by the toe.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The sand rolls in around my eyes as I sink further into it. My eyelids droop. Perhaps I do just want to blend into the lake and forget about how
different the water felt when I was simply lingering on its surface. How different
it felt as it silently slipped through my fingers when I swam across it. How different compared
to how loud it seemed when it churned past my body as I plunged through it.
Thinking only of terror.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I lift a dead-waited arm and snatch up a paw. The tiger’s eyes spark with alarm;
they reflect the dead panic of my own.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If she hollers let her go eeny meeny miny moe.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A weight lifts from me as the tiger releases me from her grip. I watch her back
legs as she kicks her way up to the surface, becoming smaller and smaller until
she fades into a series of stripes that could easily be mistaken for a chain of
ripples.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's over and all that the tiger has left is the shuddering water that surrounds me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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the white spider sits<o:p></o:p></div>
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perched<o:p></o:p></div>
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on my top lip <o:p></o:p></div>
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and spins black thread<o:p></o:p></div>
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to plait a web across <o:p></o:p></div>
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a mouth that’s <o:p></o:p></div>
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not mine anymore<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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and<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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a thud manic motion<o:p></o:p></div>
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blinks<o:p></o:p></div>
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from ear to ear<o:p></o:p></div>
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and shoots small comets<o:p></o:p></div>
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down a rabbit hole<o:p></o:p></div>
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of a mind that’s<o:p></o:p></div>
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not mine anymore <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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and<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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the walls slip sideways<o:p></o:p></div>
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braced <o:p></o:p></div>
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to cave and break <o:p></o:p></div>
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and swallow me up<o:p></o:p></div>
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with the dust <o:p></o:p></div>
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and the bones <o:p></o:p></div>
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that <o:p></o:p></div>
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aren’t mine anymore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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is the yellow<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Inspired by Vincent van Gogh's <a href="https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/vincent-van-gogh-sunflowers">Sunflowers</a>. </i></div>
Sianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18218916710714137338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134094096247606516.post-76660391268725745622016-08-10T06:53:00.002-07:002016-08-10T07:19:41.099-07:00Shelf Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 200%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 200%;"><br /></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My hands shook as
you handed me the box.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Don’t bother
looking inside”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Okay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Just keep it
somewhere safe.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Safe. In my shaking
hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I put it in the
cupboard under the stairs, on a little shelf next to the ironing board, and
then made a cup of tea for the both of us. I forgot you only drink coffee. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“No, don’t pour
it away. I’ll drink it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Okay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps it was
the puckered creases around your eyes but suddenly all I could think about was how
dry my mouth felt. You sensed my thirst and downed your tea until it burned a
pit in your stomach. I saw your eyes fill with the pain of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“We’ll be back in
a week or two. Don’t mention it to anyone.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There was nothing
to mention. It was just a box.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Don’t fiddle
with it, or put it anywhere-“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You stopped. Presumably
your tongue was too sore to continue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I reached out and
held your hand. You nodded, suddenly resolute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“We’ll be back in
a week.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You left without
an umbrella and it was raining heavily. I watched you from the living room
window. You got about halfway down the cul-de-sac before stopping. The rain was
like sheets of nothing so you lifted your head, looked up to the sky and stuck
your tongue out. It looked like it felt good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Three days passed
until I became curious. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For three days, I
carried on with the unvarying routine of my life and didn’t even think twice
about what was in the box on the little shelf in the cupboard under my stairs.
I even did some ironing, carefully extracting the board from beside the shelf without
so much as a look in its direction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But then, on the
third day since you’d gone out into the rain, there was this smell. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was like the
smell of expired fruit, a sugared rotting stench that seemed to coat the back
of my throat in a sweet glue each time I inhaled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t eat fruit
so, at first, the source of the smell puzzled me. I went to the fridge and
inspected its modest contents individually for anything similar in scent, but
there was nothing there that could match it. I even sniffed myself to determine
whether I was the source but soon realised that the smell could not be me, as I
had only noticed it when I’d come downstairs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Downstairs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I looked at the
cupboard beneath the stairs. I thought of the little box and your tired eyes.
You’d told me not to bother looking, but what about smelling?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The stench
swelled as I drew closer to the cupboard door. I turned the handle and, sure
enough, it hit me in full force like stepping out of a plane door into searing
new heat. I realised too late that gasping was the wrong reaction; the stench had
found its way onto my tongue and began stabbing away at my teeth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With one look at
the shelf, I found the source of the smell. The box was leaking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I rang you up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The box is
leaking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“It’s okay, just
leave it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But it smells.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“What of?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like warm fruit
eaten on a foreign night. Like the juice trapped in the folds of a bin bag.
Like a shrunken, lint-covered apple left in the bottom a rucksack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like decay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Bury it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bury it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Dig a hole in
your garden and just-“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You stopped short
like the time in my kitchen with the hot tea on your tongue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Just don’t open
it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t have a
spade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Use your hands,
I don’t care.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Okay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The box was
sealed to the shelf. I tried to ease it up from its position but my hands found
themselves slowly sinking through a layer of sodden cardboard. The box was
steeped in liquid and the sides had crumbled inwards at what had only been the
slightest pressure from my fingers. The smell now seeped out everywhere, having
broken past its cardboard barrier. Instinctively, I covered my hands and mouth
but there was no point, in doing so my fingers had brushed against something
and I didn’t dare breathe for fear of what I had touched.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The contents of
the box were warm. I had felt something warm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And soft.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Did you tell me
not to open it because you were worried about the smell? Well then it was
stupid of you to give it to me in a flimsy cardboard box. A flimsy cardboard
box that could break open at any time and display its contents for all to see. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And why would you
make me bury something that was still warm? I thought about the way you had
lifted your head and looked to the sky with your mouth open. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I carefully
lifted the lid. And then I knew what had felt so warm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cradled by the
sodden cardboard folds of the disintegrating box, a tiny form wriggled at the
event of its own discovery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I pictured your
tongue, stuck out and comforted by the cool rain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Why had you given
me a baby to put in my cupboard?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Why have you
given me a baby?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You didn’t
answer. I couldn’t hold your hand this time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Why have you told
me to bury this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Just do it,
please.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I can’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Please, it’s
not-“ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not what?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“It just has to
go.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You told me to
keep it safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And I wanted to
keep it safe because it was so warm where I was so cold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t really know
how to hold a baby but I gave it my best shot. I know that there’s something
about keeping the neck stable so I just put my arm under that and hoped the
rest of its little body would come up with it. It did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For a moment,
standing there in the cupboard with my arms holding this thing, I felt
perilously full. Not in a crying way, but like a thirsty child that has just
been handed a full cup of lemonade and told not to spill a drop of it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I looked down to
see if the baby felt as strange as I did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Its little
features were considering mine with an expression that told me it was as
puzzled as I was as to the situation we now found ourselves in. I looked at its
eyes and tried to work out what they were saying but they kept creasing around
the edges in a way that reminded me of the dry lines around yours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do our eyes grow?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This question was
not directed at you but at the baby you had made me put in my cupboard. It came
to me as I looked at its eyes, but not into them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Surely these were
the same size as mine. Mine as a fully-grown adult. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I took it to the
mirror in the living room and held it up beside my face as best I could. It
didn’t understand what we were looking at and looked to me instead, swivelling about
in a way that made it hard for me to make a direct comparison. Eventually I grasped
that its eyes were about the same in size as mine but I had more white space
around my irises. Age clearly shrinks the colour from them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Outside, it
started to rain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I took the baby
over to the window and showed it the place where you had stood in the street,
in this kind of rain, without an umbrella. It liked the window better that the
mirror and so, when I explained what you had done, it seemed to understand why
you had enjoyed the rain so much. I know this because it stuck its tongue out just
beyond its tiny lower lip and looked up at me by way of response. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It seemed you
both understood something that I didn’t. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I know you wanted
me to, but I couldn’t go outside into the cold when I finally had something so
warm to keep against me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Six days after
you’d left it rained again. Ever since you’d gone, it seemed to be raining once
every three days. I found this odd but the baby didn’t. It only stuck out its
tongue and looked up at me, its creased eyes widening in expectation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I folded on the
seventh day, the day you’d said you might come back.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was standing
with the baby at the window again, hoping that the sun would slip out from
behind one of the grey clouds sealing off the sky above us. I was standing with
the baby looking at the clouds and I was thinking about how the smell had gone.
And how I couldn’t remember when it had gone or why it had been there in the
first place. The baby had come to me completely clean, a perfect form discovered
in a decaying box, and it had stayed clean in my arms ever since. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It looked as if
it might rain but I suddenly thought that I could risk it, seeing as it was the
seventh day and seven is not a multiple of three. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stepping outside
the front door with the baby felt like I was carrying all my organs outside
of my body. Perhaps this was the wrong thing to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I want to go back
in, I told it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It looked up at
me with your eyes and I felt surer than ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I want to go back
inside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Four of the
baby’s fingers wrapped around one of mine; its little hands were so very warm
against the skin they touched. I stopped shaking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Warm hands mean a
cold heart, I thought. But no heart could be colder than yours on that day,
when you’d stood out here in the street and drank from the sky. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A cold wind cut
through the cul-de-sac and I felt as if I was spilling over again. The whipping
air seemed to be stealing great chunks of me as I walked down the street and I
suddenly found that a part of me hoped it would take more than what was
spilling over. As I came to your spot, I wondered why the baby made me feel so
dangerously full where you had felt so thirsty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I pictured the
box silently decomposing on the little shelf, next to the ironing board, in the
cupboard under the stairs. I felt the sodden cardboard crumbling between my
fingers, followed by the unexpected warmth of the tiny figure inside. I
imagined myself, eyes so very wide, looking down at the little thing that had
brought me such an intense feeling of irresistible wholeness that I had wanted
to keep its little body against mine forever. Even if that meant I would
eventually have to spill over into nothingness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I should have
buried it when you’d told me to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You win. I didn’t
look down at the thing in my arms as I said this. I couldn’t look into its eyes.
Eyes that I knew were filled with so many colours and so much hope. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 373.1pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You win. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And so, when it
started to rain as the clouds had promised, I stuck my tongue out and prayed
that I would drown. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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