Delicate Edible Birds
“Sue and Mackenzie would press their faces to the window and watch the children pass with toddlers’ fixed awe, and I would watch my girls and think with a fierceness I still sometimes feel, Not yet. When I’d remember the law firm where I was supposed to return to work, panic like a cold finger would press my heart, and I’d think the same thing: Not yet, not yet, not yet.
My husband tells me I romanticize those years, that in reality I was lonely and wept a lot and complained about betraying my p...rinciples by being a lowly housewife. He claims I called the girls little vampires, sucking the life out of me with their constant need. His version would explain the electric jingle of my nerves the day before that first poetry class, why all afternoon I caught the girls watching me carefully, as if they were afraid I’d suddenly explode. The class that evening seemed at once the most difficult thing I’d ever attempted and the most immensely silly. It was, of course, Sam’s idea. I had been absently filling scraps of paper with the words that bubbled up in my brain as I cleaned the house, and Sam had found them, and enrolled me in the class for my birthday.MoreLess
My husband tells me I romanticize those years, that in reality I was lonely and wept a lot and complained about betraying my p...rinciples by being a lowly housewife. He claims I called the girls little vampires, sucking the life out of me with their constant need. His version would explain the electric jingle of my nerves the day before that first poetry class, why all afternoon I caught the girls watching me carefully, as if they were afraid I’d suddenly explode. The class that evening seemed at once the most difficult thing I’d ever attempted and the most immensely silly. It was, of course, Sam’s idea. I had been absently filling scraps of paper with the words that bubbled up in my brain as I cleaned the house, and Sam had found them, and enrolled me in the class for my birthday.MoreLess
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