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MARIAN<br />
The horizon, red, so sucked me forward, forward while my heart kept swelling, swelling<br />
til it swelled so big it seemed to fill my body then it burst <strong>and</strong> overflowed the world <strong>and</strong><br />
swamped the light. And now I am dead <strong>and</strong> safe,<br />
Thought Marian Erle.<br />
She had dropped <strong>and</strong> fainted.<br />
AURORA<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
AURORA<br />
As the sense returned, she was aware of heavy tumbling motions, creaking wheels.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
A wagoner had found her in a ditch beneath the moon as white as moonshine save for the<br />
oozing blood.<br />
At first he thought her dead.<br />
AURORA<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
But when he heard her sigh, he raised her up, laid her in his wagon <strong>and</strong> brought her to the<br />
hospital.<br />
She stirred.<br />
AURORA<br />
MARIAN<br />
The place seemed new <strong>and</strong> strange as death. The white, straight bed with others straight<br />
<strong>and</strong> white, like graves dug side by side at measured lengths <strong>and</strong> quiet people walking in<br />
<strong>and</strong> out with wonderful low voices <strong>and</strong> soft steps. And apparitional equal care for each,<br />
astonished me with order, silence, law. And when a gentle h<strong>and</strong> held out a cup, I took it<br />
as you do a sacrament, half awed, half melted, not being used indeed to so much love.<br />
AURORA<br />
Oh my God, how sick we must be ere we make men just.<br />
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