…Pahn
is lying in bed
with
Ahstrild
He
is comfortable in the soft mattress
and white sheets
He
looks up adoringly
at
her round full face as she sits up playfully
leaning over him
the covers sloughing off her back
He
wants to be nude with her
and
to pull her over his body
like a
blanket
She
is amenable
but
gets up to do something first
He
takes his shirt off
but
she wanders out of the room
He
thinks for a moment
about
her mother
who may
be somewhere about the house
He
gets out of bed and follows Ahstrild
into
other rooms
while
she attends to her tasks
After a while
she
shows him the case in the hall
where
beneath
the glass and screen
there are stones
and small logs
lying
in earth
or
pans of water—
thin
white filaments
creep
up the edges of some
fleshy
patches
lie on others
and
some are like fine
fur
The
molds are hers she says
the
roots
belong to
her sister
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