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One of his favorite tactics of derision was to recite the Scriptures mockingly. There was a tang of mockery in the air, a vibrancy of mockery through the door. Once he was at this long enough, maybe the better part of a good hour or so, another sound would rise amid the din of his locution, curling onto it and then all through it like a wisp of smoke, as from another life we both had lived, a bar in Ensenada where the beer was kept in ice in buckets on the table and the smoke hung like a blue veil over us, wavering when she walked in from the street to sit beside the window in the stillness after the laughter and the songs died down.
With the blank space or the stillness afterward like daylight emptied of the one hummingbird. Page 27 2 Page 29 Summer in Umbria I used to sit down drunk on my front porch to watch the afternoon and the mulberry mingle together with timbrels and dances to the windchime's ruthless tinkle, as if the sun could leap and kick his heels around that tree in her small gown of green, beside the shadow because it was not the light I wanted there, but other light that stood among cypresses beyond a garden with figtrees and cicadas jangling above the voices of young girls who stopped to take their shoes off by the gate so they could dance home barefoot from there on.
He hated Wordsworth like a pestilence. One of his favorite tactics of derision was to recite the Scriptures mockingly. There was a tang of mockery in the air, a vibrancy of mockery through the door. Once he was at this long enough, maybe the better part of a good hour or so, another sound would rise amid the din of his locution, curling onto it and then all through it like a wisp of smoke, as from another life we both had lived, a bar in Ensenada where the beer was kept in ice in buckets on the table and the smoke hung like a blue veil over us, wavering when she walked in from the street to sit beside the window in the stillness after the laughter and the songs died down.