reticence | reticence
Apr.18.2012
Here's my latest, on Reticence, at The Nervous Breakdown: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/jpsmith/2012/04/review-of-reticence-by-jean-philippe-toussaint/
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Apr.25.2010
When she is not there, he runs his rough fingers
over the lips he cannot feel with his working skin –
his sun-stained, dip-dried, sheep-tending hands.
His mouth feels what his hands cannot.
Nothing is ever tender enough for him,
save the newborn lambs he sends
to their hideous deaths; a deep...
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