Jun

23

Song in Plaster: Daniel Rossen, “Waterfall”

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Primordial and transcendant.
Her hair in a fine mist, vapor around her head, she stretched hands down to his sides. His stony face expressed nothing about his sleep, his mouth closed tight. Over him, leaning her face down, feet planted bare on the grass, pink in green, she thought of herself as a mythological tree awakened by this boy’s loveliness, and moved in turn to wake him with branches, twigs tickling his underarms. She sent spider shivers into her fingers, bit her lip in a smile with eyebrows raised, and watched for the change in his face.

He snapped into a terror, and gurgling grabbed at her too roughly, gripped her arm, swept a foot away and toppled her onto the ground. She landed, her shoulder and head making a triangle with the ground for a moment, the rest of her thumping just after. He held her arm still, which she tried to pull away. He pulled her to him, now held both shoulders in hands and asked, “Why would you do that?” the sleep not quite out of his voice.

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Daniel Rossen - “Waterfall” mp3

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