A picture book · for small readers
THE LACEPILLOW
Convalescence, with embroidery
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Lace and fever
White lace, a little yellowed with age, held the kitten’s head as if she were a queen with a cold.
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Quiet orders
The boy tiptoed. The girl arranged the coverlet three times. The pillow did not complain.
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Physic on lace
Medicine tastes the same on lace as on cotton — which is to say, suspicious. Still, she took it.
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Soft hours
They read to her from a picture paper. They counted her whiskers. They believed in recovery out loud.
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Sitting up
She sat like a small person in a portrait. Lace framed her like fame.
THE END
Told for the picture house · rest as a kind of cure
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