The husband submerged his square, strong hands in the blue light of
the cosmos. Stars winked like burnished silver lockers cavorting out of
his reach. It was his fault that the days had drawn in and darkness
reigned. Nowadays she stayed indoors wrapped in a cloak of memories.
Only the cat occasionally courted her when he stirred his ginger limbs
from the rag rug hearth where he lay curled. Her heart was a huge,
cavernous building strewn with faded poppies. The war was over and
emptiness remained. Deep in the woods the hatchet lay buried. Buzzards
flew overhead chasing crows downwards. 'Honey,' he murmured, 'honey?'
But his words were no longer drops of golden sweetness dredged from her
pure teenage dreams but hollow with overuse. She hummed a tune from eons
ago, 'little willie, willie won't come home.'
His square strong
hands had shod her in a shoddy way. The genie was out of the bottle and
there was no going back. She clicked her fingers for her first wish
longing to feel life's warmth infiltrate her days.
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