Thursday, May 18, 2017

The Seal Wife * 22



 The Seal Wife

Beside his bed was a woman’s shoe. I think it was the painting woman’s shoe. I put my face into what seemed to be a slipper with a hard sole and I could still smell the woman’s foot. She had been gone a long time, that woman.



I wondered about the last girl child, whether she would ever return to the inlet. I tried to think what it would be like to see her, to see my seal wife give her grown daughter her sealskin, the way my mother gave me her songs.

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