wind

Favorite Things

My favorite thing is the wind, she said, & my second favorite is chocolate but I just do that so I don’t get too skinny & blow away

Deepest Secrets

O no, she said, you can’t say just anything to the wind. Only the deepest secrets will do & also you must not use the letter i.

Belly Dancer

The singing on her belly dance records reminded her of the cattle auctions she used to go to with her grandfather & she would sing along softly, fourfiftyfourfiftyfour seventyfivegorgeous gorgeousgorgeous myohmy, she would say & then she would raise her hands above her head & ripple her body like trees in the wind.