She smiles and sighs a breath that smells of herring, rice and capers. She smiles and a lone fish scale glints from between her teeth. Behind them, mother and child, a window allows a view of the sky, allows cold to fill the room and the sounds of the crowd gathered below to push them [...]
They gather at last, two mothers and their sons, to huddle beneath the rocks. They gather and introduce the boys to communion. With each other. With the wind-swept mass of spires, crude and thick with lichen. A mother and an angel, the angel a mother, and a pair of nude boys flex their fingers in [...]