the first crossing now his neck is folded through with water and the coals have burned and the metal has forged the mane. this skin won’t split. see how we make our men: slowly, with heat at first and blood eyes that drum so quickly set to aspic, to glass in the flood
Two Serious Ladies is named for the 1943 short novel by Jane Bowles.
“I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”
― Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies