Chapter 5: Promises<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A year exactly<\/p>\n
Gone<\/p>\n
I waited at the docks<\/p>\n
For him all yesterday.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
How, again,<\/p>\n
Are we standing in this river<\/p>\n
washing sheets?<\/p>\n
Sister and I,<\/p>\n
Never escaping this intricate knot<\/p>\n
Of time.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
When we were young<\/p>\n
Sister would gaze \u2013<\/p>\n
Cast a net wide into the future<\/p>\n
And haul it in \u2013<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This game she\u2019d start in a mystical voice with a mystical phrase:<\/p>\n
\u201cQueen of the entire west that we have never seen<\/p>\n
Where language runs like rivers from the tongues of poets,<\/p>\n
I imagine for you a prince.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eyes unfocused, drifting in the wind.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe will fly!\u201d she\u2019d promised me.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And now, the wind yanks at our hair,<\/p>\n
Seeps time from our bones.<\/p>\n
We, alone, stand.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
That last time, Sister\u2019s prophecy became a threat.<\/p>\n
She\u2019d said, \u201cWith him, you will see much suffering.<\/p>\n
He will burn for you, and you will burn.<\/p>\n
And, with him, you both shall rise from ashes.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A dark promise.<\/p>\n
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