them bones

the description of the changing months at the beginning of The Juniper Tree (Brothers Grimm) is beautiful. “a month went by, and the snow was gone…and two months, and everything was green.” Juniper is there, at the conception, and then during the second and third trimesters. the mother-to-be eats the berries “greedily”, then grows “sick… Continue reading them bones

the red shoes i wore, I

what on earth can equal a pair of red, red shoes! a flash of color with each step, a festival. like a heartbeat on the sidewalk, a steady pulse of look at me, look at me, look at me. cóż na świecie równać się może z czerwonymi bucikami! błysk koloru z każdym krokiem, święto. jakby… Continue reading the red shoes i wore, I