blackbird singing in the dead of night
In a horrible and tragic frostbite accident, Henry loses his feet.
Clare builds him wings.
"(look I am living. on what? neither childhood nor future/ grows any smaller...Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart.)"
"'kiss me,' Clare says, and I turn to her, white face and dark lips floating in the dark, and I submerge. I fly, I am released: being wells up in my heart."
Time Traveler's Wife
Clare builds him wings.
"(look I am living. on what? neither childhood nor future/ grows any smaller...Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart.)"
"'kiss me,' Clare says, and I turn to her, white face and dark lips floating in the dark, and I submerge. I fly, I am released: being wells up in my heart."
Time Traveler's Wife