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Hannah Bonner considers the smudge in Carl Elsaesser’s 2021 film “Home When You Return.”...

When You Return

Fallen leaves will climb back into trees. Shards of the shattered vase will rise and reassemble on the table. Plastic raincoats will refold into their flat envelopes. The egg, bald yolk and its transparent halo, slide back in the thin, calcium shell. Curses will pour back into mouths, letters un-write themselves, words siphoned up into the pen. My gray hair will darken and become the feathers of a black swan. Bullets will snap back into their chambers, the powder tamped tight in brass casings. Borders will disappear from maps. Rust revert to oxygen and time. The fire return to the log, the log to the tree, the white root curled up in the un-split seed. Birdsong will fly into the lark’s lungs, answers become questions again. When you return, sweaters will unravel and wool grow on the sheep. Rock will go home to mountain, gold to vein. Wine crushed into the grape, oil pressed into the olive. Silk reeled in to the spider’s belly. Night moths tucked close into cocoons, ink drained from the indigo tattoo. Diamonds will be returned to coal, coal to rotting ferns, rain to clouds, light to stars sucked back and back into one timeless point, the way it was before the world was born, that fresh, that whole, nothing broken, nothing torn apart.”

― Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar

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name: richard nicknames: richy rich, richy, rich birthday: feb 15 gender: gender height: around 160-170cm orientation: straight time and date at current moment: 12:04am 21st of January 2015 average hours of sleep: 6-8 lucky number: 15 last thing i googled: south park first word that comes to mind: *do all of this before going to bed* one place that makes me happy: my bed with my new phone number of blankets i sleep under: uno, one

favourite… fictional character: emily fields & spencer hastings (pll), all the characters in teen wolf, connor walsh & asher millstone (htgawm), thomas, newt & minho (tmr) book: the maze runner series by james dashnier anime: pokemon! tv show: pll, modern family, htgawm, teen wolf, the fosters, revenge, bgc, wwe, tna. can't think of any more favourite food: steaks with mash! bar food! favourite beverage: sprite favourite color: turquoise, aqua blue, neon blue, or anything blue last movie i saw in theatres: step up all in last book i read: to kill a mocking bird by harper lee (for school) dream holiday: around europe and asia dream wedding: beach or garden dream job: idk :S places that make me happy: restaurants without the annoying people and bad service :)

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