...On the night of 19th when my breasts became hard and sore to touch, the nurses brought me hot water bottles rather than my baby. I should have known. ...Birdman was apparently away to Very Big City with our baby. Every SMS update sent to me about her after 16th Jan was fake. I was a donkey eating at his trough. I should have known. ...Visitors who came to see me in the hospital did not look me straight in the eye. I should have known. ...My mother sounded reluctant every time I asked her on a timeline on when my stitches would be cut and I could travel to Very Big City. I should have known. ...I grieved at how many pricks and tubes were affixed to my little baby while she lay cold and unfeeling at the bottom of an earth pit fatigued from all the effort she put into staying alive. I should have known. ...Family dropped clues on how oxygen deprivation could affect the brain. I spelt it out for them. I told them that Lola was my daughter even if she came out r-e-t-a-r-d-e-d from the o...
necklace?
ReplyDeletea streetlamp?
ReplyDeleteA picture taken directly at the sun?
ReplyDeleteA string of pearls?
ReplyDeleteThe light at the end of the tunnel?
ReplyDeleteAh, what kmina says...
ReplyDeleteA string of lights?
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A porch light through a window.
ReplyDeleteoncoming headlights?
ReplyDeleteA reflection of a candle burning in a mirror?
ReplyDeleteVery abstract.
I'm excited to find out what it is!
Reminds me of a string of spiderweb.
ReplyDeleteI suck at guessing things, but I'm going to say the reflection of a light in a mirror? The edge of a glass holding a double martini? Because chickie, I would love a martini with 3 olives right about now. (Olives make it healthy, y'know daily fruit intake.)
ReplyDeleteGetting caught up here...
ReplyDeleteperhaps a porch rail in the moonlight?