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Half-Lit Houses
by Tina Chang
ISBN: 1-884800-52-1 |
MY FATHER DREAMS He is shrinking by degrees but no one is counting. To the East, fishermen cast nets over his children.To the West, rocks fill up his wife's shoes. She will never walk again. Even when he is standing like a headless nail, a battered fish, he refuses all the food that is given him. His bones have made islands of themselves. The soul begins to speak: spoon, ladle, malice in his mouth. The body, a cage. Sundown. His fingers fall away from his face. One day he will wander away from home and will not recognize anyone who tries to stop him. Three weeks later he will come home from rain dying of fever. But he will die of hunger first. |
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