YOU WILL HAVE ARRIVED: A Semi-Natural History by L M Feldman
L M Feldman YOU WILL HAVE ARRIVED: A Semi-Natural History 1. The Valley Green Inn A WEDDING You arrive alone to celebrate someone’s love and hope and future (your faith in such things long gone, a dry river). You’ve donned your best shoes (so no one will know) and the suit that fit a former You. The Inn is festooned in white and pale green, the flowers arrayed in bowls of water. Wedding guests (tamed by ties and heels) are milling on the long dirt road (what was it called before Forbidden Drive?) in outfits that (more or less) fit. You smile, greet, hug, laugh, escape (at last) to join the geese. … Dirt. Trees. Wind. Creek. Facing out: the sky. Facing in: incandescent bulbs, strung up like stars (like chaos caged). Later, you’ll carouse. Make up words to songs you don’t know. Sing yourself hoarse to songs you do. … chop! chop! read more!