Remember when we went to the gallery
and found the landscape? You said the piece was little more than
primordial bits, shapes, lines, surfacing from chaos, like fragments
of us. I suggested it was integrated, balanced, and far more ordered
than confused. We placed it over the mantle. Now, in the divorce, we
each grapple for ownership of it, the pictified essence of
incompatible temperaments.
Available on Amazon There are infinitesimal moments, milliseconds actually, when a decision is made and life takes an unexpected turn. For Rosie, it came while driving on the thruway, passing a double trailer, when, seeing the slight curve of the road ahead, she imagined how twisting winds and shifting weights of masses in motion could possibly blow the truck over, crushing her soft flesh and brittle bones into a confounding mass of crumpled metal that could never be put right.