The Wistful Show
It was the way the moss grew on the north face of the great oak in the garden that first told me my mother was leaving, not the fever that burned in her cheekbones, nor the trembling of her hands as she held the iron spoon, but the green, velvet tongue of the lichen that crept upward with a slow, deliberate hunger, swallowing the bark whole just as the cold swallowed the warmth from her skin. I...
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