Elephant Women by Jenny Stalter
The man, a sort of apparition, was going around the neighborhood, slipping in and out of our houses.
The man, a sort of apparition, was going around the neighborhood, slipping in and out of our houses.
My husband is a choker. Every now and again, he’ll cough then suddenly rise, the dinner plate flung to the floor. Food thrown everywhere.
Momma wears her memories like a ratty robe, worn patches rubbed shiny on the seat, diverse stains obscuring the lapels.
In your favorite foreign movie, the husband wakes at night and sees the elderly neighbor woman in the bedroom, staring at his wife, the young sleepwalker, S, tied to the bed for her own protection.
You pull her up on two-strings, one-string, ten strings. You make her dance her necessary steps, and then you stand her still.