Puzzle for Pilgrims (2015)
“Below us, the papier-mâché Star of Bethlehem hung glistening like a portent between the church’s twin steeples. The music, seeping up from the Zocalo, seemed part of the moonlight.
On the toppling descent past the dark, secondary church, past the unlit houses where begonias gleamed white on high balconies, Iris kept as far from me as possible, avoiding a chance physical contact from a stumble on the cobblestones. Her wary silence became unendurable, particularly now when the first confusion...s were gone and I had started to realize to the full the huge change Sally’s death would make for all of us.
We took a twist in the road, past a pig grunting in its sleep by a heap of straw. The colored lights and the glossy-leaved trees of the Zocalo shone below us like a stomacher.
“Martin won’t need a divorce now,” I said.
“No.”
“And you’ll marry him?”
She whispered, “Yes, I’ll marry him.”MoreLess
On the toppling descent past the dark, secondary church, past the unlit houses where begonias gleamed white on high balconies, Iris kept as far from me as possible, avoiding a chance physical contact from a stumble on the cobblestones. Her wary silence became unendurable, particularly now when the first confusion...s were gone and I had started to realize to the full the huge change Sally’s death would make for all of us.
We took a twist in the road, past a pig grunting in its sleep by a heap of straw. The colored lights and the glossy-leaved trees of the Zocalo shone below us like a stomacher.
“Martin won’t need a divorce now,” I said.
“No.”
“And you’ll marry him?”
She whispered, “Yes, I’ll marry him.”MoreLess
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