Reach
contained
boat
key
death
waits
eve
sequence
thumbnail
mother
kept
Cleopatra
canal
four
daughter
played
don't
saints
once
tell
city
music
detail
don't
radiation
talk
healing
geode
Dresden
cellars

There is a slyness to this word, naughty echoes and an evocation of the battlefield. Don't think life was any simpler for them or that these recreations served as anything more than what they are. Thrust and grunt and sigh and tumble, the lewd quick blooming of roses. As the years go by the drift into immediate sleep seems less gendered, sleep itself much less seamless. It is a relatively common occurance for the one who comes later to bed to engage the sleeper in a brief conversation, as if drinking water from a spring. "I just enjoy speaking to someone in the language that they dream in," his son says on the telephone from Germany.


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