Why does a man decide to build a pond on the land of a house he’s planning to sell, a Vermont schoolhouse? Too ashamed of this decision to tell his wife of forty years, he calls the contractor, hires him, commits himself, his shame equaled by his insistent will: this pond must be. He should […]
Sandra Kohler
Sandra Kohler: May, After Norway
In the study Walt’s playing Wagner not Grieg, the air is white lilac. Yesterday I cut two kinds of white flower, white fragrance, and brought them into the house: lily of the valley, lilac. The study smells of lilac, the dining room lily of the valley, but in the kitchen, the back door opened to […]