The Better Mother
“Part of the thrill, his boss told him, is that it looked as if it could splinter apart any minute, as if a nine-year-old constructed the rises and falls out of paper glue and balsa wood. On hot days, he baked in his uniform; on rainy days, he hunched over in his standard-issue yellow slicker. He hid his camera in a gym bag and took it out when the lineup was short, when no one would notice his hands winding and clicking, the lens pointed at long hair whipped back by the wind on the steepest fal...l, or hands held upward, stretched straight, the fingers trying to escape the rest of the body.The year before, his art teacher had pulled a small camera from her desk and tossed it to him, muttering, “If you’re going to stare out the window all day, then take some pictures of what you’re looking at and maybe I can give you a passing grade.”He brought the viewfinder to his eye and something curious happened.Through the lens, the world resettled. He saw the angles of shadows, the fall of light on walls, faces, shoes.MoreLess
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