“The Moonlight Palace” by Liz Rosenberg

The Moonlight Palace More Pictures Kindle by Liz Rosenberg Genre :Literature & Fiction

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1. My friend signs his name accidentally Henry Henry   and writes, As a friend I want to hold you. Henry   Henry   we all want to be held.

2. Coming home from summer school this year I carried back; chocolate chip cookies;    a wind-up grasshopper; two birds; a feather; a rock; a shell and a small brass turtle to wear or hold. What have I given?

3. Now I take three white pills each day instead of two. One comes in the middle, alone. I can pretend I am having high tea when I swallow it with water. Something is beginning to lift.

4. The first September breeze fluttered across the tops of withered grass and fall came tumbling in as if someone had thrown open a door.

5. Last week I considered slitting my throat. Imagined it painless and bloodless, then pictured the mess. Today I pick up the dirty dishes, grumbling, and glad  to be grumbling.

 6. My husband reads from Peter Pan aloud: a great book. I could never write such a book. I put my jealousy away and climb under my son’s covers beside him, to listen. Words, words, sing us to sleep.

7. At the downtown audio-visual library they have found two new James Herriot tapes. And I can borrow both. This means I have five—one more than I’m allowed, and we all know it. The librarian smiles and waves as I run out the door.

8. My mother’s old gold watch, newly repaired, circles my wrist, slides loosely around and around; and on the other wrist a bracelet with tiny green glass beads throws rainbows over the steering wheel!