The Meadow Annual Literary Arts Journal 2020

gridlocked, gasping, demanding a portion of whatever is left. Two limbs so cheap on this market, but four— now that is worth consideration. Want her for only twenty seconds, then nothing. Make sure she knows she can’t eat too little or crave too much to make a difference— the price is always the same because the one’s that go the quickest and for the highest price are not the ones who make themselves more ready, but the ones who need attention the most. Like foreign gods, they have appetites— led along by just a tiny minnow dangled from a stick. * And when he tells her to gird up her loins [by which she thinks he means the body is not her home ] he says there is no explicate connection between his verbs and his hands. He learned this in church. 190 The Meadow