Love And Sleep
“Black things of night, the bat, the bug, have flown away; the flowers have opened their cups to catch the sun.There's to be a picnic. Rosie is up early and has Sam dressed and ready to be given over to her father, Mike Mucho. She and Sam sit together on the front steps at Arcady, just throne height to Sam, waiting for Mike's car to turn in at the gate."Do you have Brownie?” Rosie wants to know (Sam won't sleep if she has forgotten Brownie, her rag doll). “Do you have blankie? Do you have a hank...ie?"—until Sam laughs aloud. Yes she does. The only way Rosie can mitigate her shame and anxiety when Sam goes away with her father is to check the list over and over. She regards Sam's fat toes, peeking out beneath the straps of her sandals, and is caught by a blow of love and guilt. “Here's Daddy."The transfer is made swiftly and without the subtle rancor that used to accompany it in the wintertime, when the separation was newer and claims were felt more sharply; and also Mike has for some reason grown nice, just in the last month, making Rosie suspicious, though she gets nothing clarifying from him when she asks why."Why being nice?MoreLess
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