This piece also appears in my blog at Sunoasis.
A piece of ceiling from the sky….
I thought it was a nonsensical phrase when it entered my head, but I liked it. I sat here, trying to think of a way to use it. It actually didn’t take long.
Falling sky. Chicken Little. A piece of ceiling from the sky looks like a piece of plaster dropping like a stone kite from above…. what might cause that? A sonic boom.
A sonic boom while I’m standing in the field with my father and sister.
My sister. My sister with whom I argue constantly. You’d think nine empty years between us would prevent that, but no.
An argument with her that ended in my slamming the bathroom door behind me.
Crash!
“Come back in here,’ spoken in a deadly quiet voice. She is so melodramatic.
I peek around the door and follow the point of her finger.
The bathtub is filled with old plaster dropped off the lathe of our farmhouse ceiling. A hole 30 inches across gapes at me from overhead. A piece, all right, many pieces then.
Pieces of ceiling from the sky.
I haven’t thought of that in ages.
I thought it was a nonsensical phrase when it entered my head, but I liked it. I sat here, trying to think of a way to use it. It actually didn’t take long.
Falling sky. Chicken Little. A piece of ceiling from the sky looks like a piece of plaster dropping like a stone kite from above…. what might cause that? A sonic boom.
A sonic boom while I’m standing in the field with my father and sister.
My sister. My sister with whom I argue constantly. You’d think nine empty years between us would prevent that, but no.
An argument with her that ended in my slamming the bathroom door behind me.
Crash!
“Come back in here,’ spoken in a deadly quiet voice. She is so melodramatic.
I peek around the door and follow the point of her finger.
The bathtub is filled with old plaster dropped off the lathe of our farmhouse ceiling. A hole 30 inches across gapes at me from overhead. A piece, all right, many pieces then.
Pieces of ceiling from the sky.
I haven’t thought of that in ages.
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