The Whistling Season
“Dancing unhappily on the bare floor as I struggled into my clothes, I checked on Damon in the dimness. He had rolled to the wall, as far away from me and my dream tumult as it was possible to get and still be in bed. I supposed I had to sympathize, although it was his proclivity for the sharp edges of things that had led us to the buffalo jump the day before.
I knew my way in the dark, step by measured step down the stairs and to the match holder in the kitchen and, in the flare of the struck m...atch, to the lamp on the table. Father always banked the stove for the night by chocking it full of coal, and there were ruby-red embers left for me to feed a crumpled newspaper and sticks of kindling. With everything lit, I took stock of myself.
It did not require much: I felt like a wreck. Sweet dreams, hooey. Nightly awaits that sweet address/Principality of Sleep/ Happy Land of Forgetfulness—could a poet be any farther wrong than that? If that was the best the grown-up world had to offer on the subject, I would need to construct my own approach to what went on in me when I was not awake.MoreLess
I knew my way in the dark, step by measured step down the stairs and to the match holder in the kitchen and, in the flare of the struck m...atch, to the lamp on the table. Father always banked the stove for the night by chocking it full of coal, and there were ruby-red embers left for me to feed a crumpled newspaper and sticks of kindling. With everything lit, I took stock of myself.
It did not require much: I felt like a wreck. Sweet dreams, hooey. Nightly awaits that sweet address/Principality of Sleep/ Happy Land of Forgetfulness—could a poet be any farther wrong than that? If that was the best the grown-up world had to offer on the subject, I would need to construct my own approach to what went on in me when I was not awake.MoreLess
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