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Magicians

Kyle Hemmings

    As a magician she was never lovelier then when she sawed you in half and never returned your parts. One part always longed for the clarity of winter. The other grew nostalgic for hissing summers, children selling lemonade on manicured lawns. Or the time she changed your blind turtles into laughing rain. Then you read in the news that a man cut his wife down to size, divided her. The right hemisphere kept in 2/3rds vinegar solution, the left in formaldehyde. When questioned by the police, he said It was the first idea he ever had of something being “clear and distinct.” For years, you imagine someone outside your house throwing stones at your window. She demands you put her back together or at least give her what she once had. But children never really grow all the way up. And magicians never reveal all their secrets. You think about your wife in the basement, shining a flashlight on the cement cracks, the black water rising, caused by the neighbor’s tree roots spreading under the foundation. After you open the window and yell out that you’re married to someone else, to please not come back, you realize there is no one there. Just a black rain and this hard shell of a house where everything slowly disappears.

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