From e0b1c2737397839ff5ba8c129d31baf6f97805fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:10:17 -0700 Subject: Finish linking Elegy, Hezekiah; Rename files --- 40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt | 31 ------------------------------- 1 file changed, 31 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt (limited to '40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt') diff --git a/40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt b/40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 478ca07..0000000 --- a/40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: 'We played those games too' -project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' -project-order: 40 -genre: 'verse' -... - -I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game \ -blowing on each other's' vocal chords to make music \ -on the tundra. I thought about how \ -once we played the same game \ -and the sounds blowing over the chords of our throats \ -was the same as a wind over frozen prairie. \ -We are the Eskimo girls who played \ -the game that night to keep ourselves warm. \ -I run my hands over [my daughter][]'s \ -voicebox as she hums a song \ -about a seal and about killing the seal and about \ -skinning it and rendering the blubber \ -into clear oil to light lamps. \ -I remember you are my lamp. She remembers \ -you although you left before she arrived. \ -I can never tell her about you. \ -I will never be able to express that taste of your oil \ -as we [pushed our throats together][spittle]. \ -I will never be able to say how \ -we share this blemish like conjoined twins. \ -I will fail you always to remember you. - -[my daughter]: and.html -[spittle]: spittle.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81