Coral Reefs – Ted Hayden

Horacio Quiroga, from “Los arrecifes de coral”

My black brawls… As my black serpents slept, restlessness seized them. Writhing on the carpet, they slithered into the quivering cartoons where I triumph by weeping ruefully. The slender beasts’ agitation took the shape of sleeplessness, their silky skin softening the carpet’s maddeningly coarse weave. In the room’s cavernous silence, I kneeled before them. TheirContinue reading “Horacio Quiroga, from “Los arrecifes de coral””