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Stephan Collishaw

The Song of the Stork

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  • Aep Hamarahas quoted8 years ago
    “I have nothing to do here and cannot imagine what might come. It’s like the future and present have been taken from me, and I’m left only with memories. Sometimes I can picture them, as clear and tangible as if they were here – or rather, I was there. I feel I could reach out and touch them.
  • b3433063841has quoted2 years ago
    She noticed the shoes, good shoes, leather brogues with fine stitching. Her father’s shoes she was sure. The trousers too.
  • b3433063841has quoted2 years ago
    Her heart wrenched. “Oh God!” she murmured. The pain felt crushing. The desire to run across the path and fall into her mother’s arms. To hear her father’s quiet voice. To see Josef. To know their home once more.
  • b3433063841has quoted2 years ago
    “Besides your love / I have no ocean… Besides your love / I have no sun, / but I don’t even know where you are or with whom.”
  • b3433063841has quoted2 years ago
    He would be awake, Yael thought. She imagined him waking alone in his bed and rising and wondering where she was. The pain in her heart was so intense she thought it would break. She hungered for him. For the small meaningless rituals that made up their days.
  • b3433063841has quoted2 years ago
    The stork cannot sing, her father had told her once, in fact they are more or less mute.
  • b3433063841has quoted2 years ago
    The stork brings spring upon its tail, the saying goes
  • b3433063841has quoted2 years ago
    “Beside your love / I have / no ocean… Beside your love / I have / no sun.”
  • b3433063841has quoted2 years ago
    Is it possible, she thought, that here, in the middle of war, as on all sides carnage and murder stalk the world, is it possible that there can exist this pocket of peace?
  • b3433063841has quoted2 years ago
    Yael was torn by the irony that with the spring, with this resurrection of the earth, war once more became possible; death could continue its rampage across the continent.
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