From f00d869e4c0e64be6093e4980e62e3c9b9b33cc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:36:44 -0700 Subject: Add links to Elegies; write TODO.txt --- 40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt (limited to '40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt') diff --git a/40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt b/40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e9dd274 --- /dev/null +++ b/40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: 'We played those games too' +project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' +... + +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]: 08-and.html +[spittle]: 34-spittle.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81