Saturday 18 June 2011

In the shade

The lemonade sweats in the shade, and Peter is cutting off lizards' tails again. Someone somewhere is having a barbeque, while the cicadas dance to a rehearsing trumpet miles away. The woman rolls onto her stomach, crunching the dry grass beneath her. She shuts her eyes to the sun, but feels at sea, unmoored and drifting left and right, floating eastward.

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