Haigh Jane Haigh is the author of several books of history and humor. She is co-owner of Chatanika Gold Dredge. The day is nearly gone, an orange bead in the gunsight of evening. When a key turns, you hear the kingdom open. Just a little food to tide me over.
Bread is a comfort.
The butter tastes sweet. Death is a white cotton shirt, draw string, slippers. That corridor ahead is tiled with footsteps of the vanished, each thought a twelve inch square. Death is a stainless table, a clean sheet folded down sharp as a military bunk. But your eyes are in the treetops now.