#Canadians #Women #XXCentury #XXICentury
She reclines, more or less, Try that posture, it’s hardly lang… Her right arm sharp angles. With her left she conceals her amb… Shoes but not stockings,
The bronze clock brought with such care over the sea, which ticked like the fat slow hea… of a cedar, of a grandmother, melted and its hundred years
What should we have taken with us? We never could decide on that; or what to wear, or at what time of year we should make the journey
The house we built gradually from the ground up when we were yo… (three rooms, the walls raw trees) burned down last year they said
The eye is the organ of vision, and the third eye is no exception to that. Open it and it sees, close it and it doesn’t. Most people have a third eye but they don’t trust it. That wasn’...
Living backwards means only I must suffer everything twice. Those picnics were already loss: with the dragonflies and the clear… What good did it do me to know
The world is full of women who’d tell me I should be ashamed… if they had the chance. Quit danci… Get some self-respect and a day job.
He would like not to kill. He wou… what he imagines other men have, instead of this red compulsion. Wh… fail him and die badly? He would l… finger by finger and with great te…
Two voices took turns using my eyes: One had manners, painted in watercolours, used hushed tones when speaking
You walked in front of me, pulling me back out to the green light that had once grown fangs and killed me. I was obedient, but
How did I get so dutiful? Was I… Going around as a child with a sma… sweeping up dirt I didn’t make, or out into the yard with a stunte… weeding the gardens of others
i The children on the lawn joined hand to hand go round and round each arm going into
This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons
It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flec… blended with the paper;
He, who navigated with success the dangerous river of his own bir… once more set forth on a voyage of discovery into the land I floated on