Rooms, birds, and womanhood. In "Period"
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The loudest I've heard the women laugh is chatting about Period Colour Charts: over dark port and after-dinner mints - the blokes can't keep up with their joke it lands loud and heavy about the reds through to browns they are making up names and laughing - laughing - and I'm half asleep on the kitchen floor next to the dog who has the same name as my sister |
I found "How much rain can a cloud hold" moving - episodic sadness about a 31 year old friend/relative who looked like the narrator. "You took something with you// leaving us in all this blue".
Among the phrases I like are -
- "I want to say I think we are so beautiful/ sat outside the coffee shop/ being honest in the cold." (p.46)
- When Cookie the pet is lost, "Sometimes we do this voice like a New Yorker smoking on a fire escape like: Cookie doesn't wanna come home"
I'm not convinced by "MASH" though.
Typos -
- "Mum teaches me how hide women's things at the back of drawers" - "how to hide"? ("Period")
- "they would get bored when their left on their own" - "they're"? (p.67)
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