The Woman Who Took Everything to HeartWhen the surgeons opened her heart
while keeping theirs closed, heads in control, they found kitchen appliances from 1935 on, refrigerators and blenders she had set hers on as a bride, ten foot high Nebraska snowdrifts that never melted, one thousand miles of dirt and gravel road crammed in a 1915 Model-T sedan, packing crates of grapefruits-- Ruby Reds from the Rio Grande Valley-- several men in various stages of tenderness, one with a ring, children in snapshots wearing cowboy boots and poodle skirts, bouquets of faded camellias and tables of card games, grudges with salt at the temples, some completely gray or bald, sensible nursing shoes sticking out tongues, missed opportunities and occasions, stale sentiments and promises, cross words and gentle joshing. The doctors sutured everything back in, intricate needlework across her chest, knew if they cleaned it out, she would float away. |
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