Evening. Nessa Rapoport

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СКАЧАТЬ those nights we stayed up late?” Laurie says. “Eating the sugar cookies your mother kept in tins?”

      I listen.

      “You and Tam sat across from me, howling over something that set you off, an inside joke you never could explain.”

      Stillness.

      “Is it warm in there?” says Laurie.

      “I’m in the womb,” I tell him dreamily.

      But the bath is cooling. I would like to add hot water, feel heat stream beneath me in prickly currents, but I will not sit up. Suddenly, I am as self-conscious as my primal namesake, innocence dispelled, wondering how she got herself into this predicament.

      “Do they miss me downstairs?” I ask.

      He pauses, and the room’s encompassing history reasserts itself: What is the present day? I have been here long before you, and I’ll be here when you’re gone.

      “I’ve missed you,” comes Laurie’s reply.

      I do not want him to break this spell by moving toward me.

      But I have forgotten Laurie’s grace. He raises the towel heaped on the floor and holds it like a screen in front of him. I walk toward the pale square until it is all that is between us; I cannot see his face. When I turn my back, Laurie’s arms envelop me.

      I feel his clad body behind mine, not with desire but with innate sympathy, two night creatures taking each other’s measure. I want to stand like this, enfolded in him, Tam’s towel damp against my skin, forever.

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