Halifaux is so different,... «The Scorpion Rules»
RamingoWS14 ноября 2017Halifaux is so different, so alien. Citadel Hill seems to loom. The sea is restless. The sky is too small. In Halifax I am interviewed and bowed to; I go to fetes and balls. In Halifax, my father takes me sailing, out among the little islands of the Nova Scotia archipelago, above the ruins of the sunken cities. In the evenings I go out with him to the campanile to ring the twilight bells, the one that call the little ships home. In Halifax, my mother pours me cup after cup of tea. In her library she spreads out maps and we speak of history. In Halifax I have to wear shoes indoors, and corsets that press red lines into my skin. In Halifax I am duchess and crown princess. When I come here the prairie sky opens up over me. I fold the crown princess away like linens into lavender, and I am Greta again. It is hard for the person I am here to write to that strange and distant place called "home."
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