Riverine (2016)
“We were in bed, feeling weary. Time had sped up. Two babies in eighteen months was no easy feat. The world around us had shrunk, as it does with new parents. Neither of us had been able to bring ourselves to wash the Crock-Pot for over two days, and the whole house was starting to smell. It had only been two years since the first baby; the second was six months old. It hadn’t been long at all since this part of our life had taken its own form, filling the shape of two tiny people, yet it had al...so been an eternity. Mike asked me to feel a hard lump near his elbow, and I directed his long fingers to one on my hip bone. He shrugged. “Probably nothing.”
I wasn’t so sure. I always dimmed the lights now—to shade the evidence of my abdomen in retreat of usability, my uterus like a deflating hot air balloon. A manifested past tense. He moved his hand to the top of my pelvic bone, where I had once been glued shut. “Can barely see it now,” he said.
With the second baby I’d had an emergency C-section.MoreLess
I wasn’t so sure. I always dimmed the lights now—to shade the evidence of my abdomen in retreat of usability, my uterus like a deflating hot air balloon. A manifested past tense. He moved his hand to the top of my pelvic bone, where I had once been glued shut. “Can barely see it now,” he said.
With the second baby I’d had an emergency C-section.MoreLess
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