a wonderfully clarifying effect

A Wonderfully Clarifying Effect 

Electric word life, it means forever and that’s a mighty long time

pulling all of her insides down, stretching them into new

relationship with itself. It is their end, their finitude, their 

first light to last, on account of having nothing better to do

in the tiny kitchen, chopping and salting, melting butter, three pans 

she did of me and the son she gave birth to. Said good riddance to

turning the sloping streets into waterfalls. Five minutes later, while

it came to haying or harvest, he was right out there with the hired

fear he’d grown up with, the fear of not having enough money, which

was impossible to disguise her pregnant state. They made off with 

the bigger half of her muffin out of the toaster, saying nothing

with downcast eyes and hunched shoulders told me everything.

I had a hard time recognizing them this way. I looked at their faces

one day to come together to release the pressure.