Museum of Stones

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Lynn Lurie. Museum of Stones

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Museum of Stones

Corner of the Dead 2008

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My husband takes me to a favorite place from childhood, and as he is explaining he doesn’t know why he calls it Peggy’s Cove, a wave splashes over me. I lose my footing and slip waist deep into the freezing water. He helps me over the moss-laden rocks as the cold creeps upward, numbing my legs. He doesn’t hear when I ask if we can leave, my voice faint against the breaking of the waves.

I sprawl across the back car seat’s stained fabric, rife with the odor of my father-in-law’s cigar smoke, a habit my husband later takes up. At night I see him on the deck, the red burning tip of his cigar, as the half-arc of light travels from his hand to his mouth. He drives in silence thinking I might sleep.

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