Friday, September 19, 2008

Friday, September 19, 2008: On the Street....White Dress & Feathers, NYC

Early autumn in the city. Tree limbs strain the light
into manageable portions. Vanessa receives a text
message from her sister (the bride): Picking out doves.
After the ceremony, her sister wanted to release the birds
as a symbol, asked Vanessa if she’d read some words
aloud to the guests. What are they a symbol of,
exactly? She had asked. She looks at the pigeons (gray with flecks
of black, pecking at garbage), waiting for them to take flight.

2 comments

  1. Vanessa looks like the bride here!

    And very peaceful.

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  2. Very much like the pairing that is in this piece. Bride and sister; texting vs. reading aloud; dove and pigeon. Giving us the key observation about ordinary city pigeons parenthetically in the last line is really nice.

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