Warning: plot spoilers ahead.
“It won’t come out.”
Pig.
Tent.
Surgery. Pulling worm out, putting into pig.
Worms in dirt.
Pig tagged in ear.
Pig w/ other pigs.
***
Kissing in bed. He has scar on ankle.
Then they’re lying naked in sheets in pig field
“Why do you live in hotels?”
***
Pregnancy is impossible
He finds her on street, she’s incoherent
“I’m marrying you”
She insists on getting a car
***
Happy together
Telling stories about past—but whose memories are they?
New house
“I tell you a story, and you take it and make it your own”
His childhood trips to Vermont—
Memories jumbled
Piglets
***
She’s lost, he’s driving, giving her directions to get out
“Why were you at my work?” “I didn’t know I was”
They run home, looking for… what?
Crouched in the bathtub, afraid
***
She recites as he reads from WALDEN
“A sojourner in civilized life again”
“A universal and memorable ending”
Why WALDEN??
Rebirth: good or bad?
***
Looking for more flowers, but finds only white ones
In greenhouse, the thief shakes his head “no,” as if disappointed by plants
Kris w/ piglet, cradling it like a baby
Nelson Kim is a regular contributor to Hammer To Nail and an adjunct
professor at Fordham and Columbia. He is currently in post-production on
his first feature film, Someone Else, starring Aaron Yoo and Leonardo
Nam.
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