The Weight of Gold
Just the fact of it, out in the air.
“There’s someone,” he said.
She looked at the chair. She thought about the crack — the original injury, the winter at a curb, the careful filling, the repair that was now stronger than what had been there before. She thought about what it took to do that kind of work: the patience, the willingness to be with the damaged thing long enough to understand it, to resist the urge to disguise the history and instead to honor it, make it hold.
“I need to tell you something,” she said.