Like a lantern long unlit

[摘要] Like a lantern long unlit, the feeder —unvisited by birds, no seed— swung lightly in the dry Plains wind between wings of yellow brick: the nursing home, color of the droughted grass. I could see it swing, climbing and descending tilted rungs of the cockeyed blind, valence unevenly ruffled, its cabbage roses aloof from real ones drying on the TV stand, cringing in blare, to Barbara’s silk ones more akin, pale with silt of daily talc, faux-thorny stems trapped in the dusty lucite. From where she lay, the slats obscured whatever kind of day it was and anyway, doped on oxycodone, eyes squinting in the light, she would not notice an absence of birds or ache for their lack of provender.

[学科分类] 呼吸医学