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I know it cold, the scene in the woods, the grey-toned sky, and snow— the sudden clearing in the underbrush through which a fox now steps, her auburn brush a-ziggety-zagging, as if she would erase her trail, though her tracks in the snow are already lost in the layers of snow now spackling the hemlocks, the woodrush, the blackthorn and bracken, the half-seen woods, the snow-brushed woods.
From our UK edition
Was our first date really a boxer’s funeral? You in pitch, me in black—all in all a noirish affair, how we felt so at home with those lump-faced men, the mourners wrapped in silk and onyx watches, their Stygian raincoats soaked. And did their tears heave a river, a torrent, down Amsterdam as the organ struck up the Eventide hymn and something deepened, and something deepened, and was it later, or then, I took your hand in my hand, so you could feel my stung fist harden?