February 5th, 2010 5:06pm
Nobody is Called Desdemona
Frog Eyes - “A Flower in a Glove” Beginning with legs, jeans, socks, shoes, polish and a ring. Desdemona drinking a glass of milk, still drinks milk, an unbreakable habit for peanut butter toast. A distant family, father in sales (distant, travelling), brothers (one into piano, insular, one a chessmaster, hesitant) mother in jail (innocent-ish).
A fictional daughter asks her a question in the shower and she giggles in response, “It's sex, but you're too young, I'll tell you later.” On the bus, she's in another life, tilling fields and working her hands hard and tough and big-breasted raising a freckly family and happily eating a potato a day and maybe some carrots. A hard life looks like fun from the window of a bus, she smirks, twirling her hair between her fingers, on the way to the hospital... [released Apr. 24th]
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