The Trees Grew Because I Bled There
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- Oorspronkelijke uitgave
- 2023
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- 2023
- Uitgeverij
- Titan Books
Impressies
- irene. 🌤️deelde een impressie7 maanden geleden
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Citaten
- irene. 🌤️citeerde uit7 maanden geledenI suddenly regard them, not as if they were human beings, but rather as if their bodies were the undisturbed archaeological sites of ancient tombs—the secrets they must protect in their darkest recesses, the unrevealed confessions lying dormant inside them like the jeweled remains of long-since deceased Pharaohs
- irene. 🌤️citeerde uit7 maanden geledenThey laugh.
I don’t.
Instead, my eyes perform a makeshift surgery on my husband—from the broadness of his shoulders to the narrowness of his tapered waist. I split him open in my mind and watch his organs spill out like rotten pieces of fruit. Rummaging through the jewel box of carnage I’ve arranged in the center of his fileted chest, I search him for the moment it happened—the moment his love for me became an obligation. The horrible moment it no longer was a necessity and instead became a responsibility.
Whether it resides in the marrow of his bones as yellow as amber or whether it’s woven into the latticework of his motorway of arteries, the moment exists deep somewhere inside him. Sadly, it’s something my hands cannot locate no matter how assiduously my fingers comb through the shining sculpture puzzle of his internal anatomy. - irene. 🌤️citeerde uit7 maanden geledenHowever, it’s a sadness hidden somewhere deep inside him I cannot help but recognize
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