David Miller
Spiritual Letters (Series 4, # 10)
It was a necessity, he wrote that the whiteness of their nature should be restored. A blue and red bench between palm trees on the station platform. Waking in the tomb, covered in pus and blood, he remembered fucking his dead wife in his drunkenness. Remorse and sorrow overwhelmed him. He found himself back in the country - the very city - of his birth. After taking a tram a long way, he walked down to the beach; it was so crowded, he had to leap or vault over couples and groups. Turning on a light in the kitchen, I saw in a flash the bulb shatter, fragments flying across the room, - What would you do if you were still composing? - Well, there's a chord in one of my pieces that I think I'd remove. I would eat rotten apples or dried-up pears if God would place them before me. Where the Word of God is, there is spiritual eating. - Do you have any plates? she asked. - Why, do you want to break them? After visiting the library, we went on to a shopping centre, then to a park where you persuaded me to join you on a child's slide. During the private view she spat on a handkerchief to clean one of the paintings.
palaces
of light. sun
moon a tent
in the sky
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palm-leaf book
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torch-light or
candlelight
the black black
rectangle
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