Kitty on the Rooftop
“She sat down up there the way you sit down at home, one hand on her knee, and turned her head towards us at the last moment. Her gaze didn’t follow: her …
€800 — Neo Pablo
“She sat down up there the way you sit down at home, one hand on her knee, and turned her head towards us at the last moment. Her gaze didn’t follow: her eyes slip off to the side, towards something we will never see. The blue hood with its cat ears makes her a character; the rest brings her back to someone very real — the red mouth, the pale skin, a touch of red at the rims of her eyelids. Her coat I built up in blocks, red, yellow, green, blue, laid down in broad strokes with no attempt to blend them, like a garment stitched together from pieces that didn’t belong. Behind her the rooftops stay small and quiet — bricks, chimneys, pale low walls — under a grey sky that promises nothing. I d…
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