Still Life: Children and Writing
Still life
Pictures make you long for what they depict. At least the pictures of my beautiful children make me long for them, even when they themselves are in the house, sleeping. I say sleeping because if they were in the house awake it’s unlikely that I would be looking at pictures of them. They would be right there, demanding my attention.
I Come home. The pitter pat of the little boy’s feet running to greet me. Little footsteps, like a dog. His calling out my name, or his name for me. Evangeline, who has been blase about
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