Silver Eve (2015)
“Doves nested in crevices—their cooing suspended at my footsteps. I threaded my way under the leaves of the birch and walked past the first pool where I’d showered, to the wider basin of still water. I didn’t choose this site for any reason other than I knew how to find it, but it felt a good place for privacy. I breathed in deeply. It smelled of cool, wet stone—of night. I unbuttoned my sandals, pulled my skirts out of the way, and sat on the rock facing out over the quarry. The faint spray of ...the waterfall brushed my bare legs.
Listen, I directed myself, settling in. And so I listened, hard, to the silence, to the undersong and odd calls of night things. And then I wondered at the different ways creatures made their sounds. I stared at the moon, a lopsided circle on the wane, and counted the days ’til the dark moon— Listen. I closed my eyes and breathed more slowly. Breathed the metallic tang of the rocks, considered which minerals emitted that scent. I thought of the scents filling our herb shed and then of Grandmama and Lark.MoreLess
Listen, I directed myself, settling in. And so I listened, hard, to the silence, to the undersong and odd calls of night things. And then I wondered at the different ways creatures made their sounds. I stared at the moon, a lopsided circle on the wane, and counted the days ’til the dark moon— Listen. I closed my eyes and breathed more slowly. Breathed the metallic tang of the rocks, considered which minerals emitted that scent. I thought of the scents filling our herb shed and then of Grandmama and Lark.MoreLess
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