
Rebecca Gayle Howell (ed.)
et al.
Published online:
18 May 2023
Published in print:
07 March 2023
Online ISBN:
9780813197418
Print ISBN:
9780813182438
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Wymer, Justin, 'What Proof Need You of Love', in Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones, and Emily J. Jalloul (eds), What Things Cost: an anthology for the people (Lexington, KY , 2023; online edn, Kentucky Scholarship Online, 18 May 2023), https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813182438.003.0028, accessed 14 May 2025.
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With room enough and change the woman wepta gracious fit. She had Dolly Parton hairshe’d left, let lay a tease of half-pearl spokesand her accent wasn’t right, she knew howdoctors always think the worst. When hereyour eldest son can’t hide that he’s a deadman to a few, and you can’t trust yourself to thinkin proper poses, leave the bank and showup here, and make him do, and keep in mindto use your jaw to say your d’s. Here thereI can’t pretend she doesn’t love him. Born awhile,the two keep on remembering how thiswill always happen.In the room where clearhoses hang, the rollout couch’s vinyl scrapes.The wall clock constant as a dull-swathe ploughthe cemetery zinnias are shockedto wake in, stamens stable. Sons should knowenough of birds to name them, whether wrongor good, to make her stop her rippling handsand bracelet ripping, to keep the prayers at bay.I cannot say I think in nows: my homeis still and still is null, all the nullhydrangeas, the ones without some blueor pink are green, she gets to thinking, and Iknow then, so far away, I’ve still made deathunwelcome in her house.Some hours pass. Where’dshe got to? A shoulder wasn’t worth the riskdespite the one she had bred socket-sand.A risk is not a risk when it hides twoinches below where no one thinks to lookto find and pick up, drop it in for tithe.She can breathe just fine if careful. Don’t strain.She did think last night: the heart pill. The heart.I will never say she “did” or “neverwould,” I am in the lobby, now on the sidewalkgravel, around the bushes, she is coughing,the bush is coughing greeny hydrangeas,we are out picking hydrangeas, you don’tneed proof it’s proof enough we’re holding handsour violet nails dyed through, and you, are
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