Then the dust settled…
-All morning the house had been shaking, quivering in the same way lungs collapse, expand and collapse again, the small arteries shivering against the force. I stepped out. I could not stand the violence. You remained. Inside, underneath, holding to one of the door frames, pretending the wooden rectangle hid you from the sight of God. Pretending the quaking was from some unknown force. With a shy smile, wearing innocence as if it were yours and not, as was the case, what you had stolen from the neighborhood kids while they obliviously rode their bicycles and played hopscotch in the […]