My Limbless Babies

Thursday, October 04, 2007

I stand in the kitchen

and listen

to the kettle b0il

And

Mother crying

And

Father silent

And

shattered

glass

the

kitchen

floor

fon said...: I get a really vivid image of the shouting that must have occurred earlier, the glass that dropped, the silence that ensued, and then the awkward beginning of the kettle's whistling. Or maybe the kettle was whistling all along, but nobody noticed over the shouting until the glass dropped and it was the only sound left over...; 2:58 am