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Slender and childless: an excerpt from Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum’s Madeleine is Sleeping.
Category: ellipsesAuthor: nobody
31.05.2009
“When Madeleine sleeps, Mother says, the cows give double their milk. Pansies sprout up between the floorboards. Your father loves me, but I remain slender and childless. I can hear the tumult of pears and apples falling from the trees like rain.
Smooth your sister’s coverlet. Arrange her hair on the pillowcase. Be silent as saints. We do not wish to wake her.”