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She Leaves the Water Running
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30 She Leaves the Water Running In the sink where the grease rainbows bloom. They overflow like neon in cities of rain. She hears her name again, called above noises of the house. Again the wrens are in the garden, their white throats ghosting around the boy fallen from a birch in the yard. The mother, hands still damp, kneels and holds her boy’s broken wrist. She feels his unsteady pulse and shields her one-winged son. All around, the mouths chit syllables: an aphasic’s name, an angel’s stammer . . . Again the tree, heavy with birds, moves like a lung. ...