The same dark hair, the same sharp eyes, the same etched features.Īfter all, the darkness only looked the way he did because of her. Once, the darkness teased the girl as they strolled along the Seine, told her that she had a “type,” insinuating that most of the men she chose-and even a few of the women-looked an awful lot like him. His face is now inches from her, his lips parted in sleep, black curls shadowing his eyes, dark lashes against fair cheeks. Toby begins to stir, and she feels the old familiar ache in her chest as he stretches, rolls toward her-but doesn’t wake, not yet. In the last month, she has been Claire, Zoe, Michelle-but two nights ago, when she was Elle, and they were closing down a late-night café after one of his gigs, Toby said that he was in love with a girl named Jess-he simply hadn’t met her yet. What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind? She has learned to step between the thorny weeds, but there are some cuts that cannot be avoided-a memory, a photograph, a name. She lied, but only because she can’t say her real name-one of the vicious little details tucked like nettles in the grass. The boy is still asleep, and she watches the slow rise and fall of his shoulders, the place where his dark hair curls against the nape of his neck, the scar along his ribs. It isn’t his fault-it is never their faults. She lies there, perfectly still, tries to hold time like a breath in her chest as if she can keep the clock from ticking forward, keep the boy beside her from waking, keep the memory of their night alive through sheer force of will. The wooden bird, found with a broken wing, is reputedly re-created as the fifth in the sequence (albeit intact), about to take flight.

Regarding the inspiration for Revenir, Miret attributed the idea to a figurine found on the streets of Paris in the winter of 1715. Description: A sculptural series of five wooden birds in various postures and stages of pre-flight, mounted on a narrow marble plinth.īackground: A diligent autobiographer, Miret kept journals that provide insight into the artist’s mind and process.

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