TheBanyanTree: Animal Stories

[Maria Gibson]

Two horses stood in the field.  As if I weren't there, as if there 
weren't a mile long length of cars whizzing by, these two horses stood 
in slow motion nuzzling necks and not noticing any of the rest of us.  
They loved and nuzzled and ignored.

Two women with strollers stood face to face talking.  The babies faced 
one another, the ladies faced one another, they faced the traffic.  The 
dog was simply trying to take a shit without being embarrassed and was 
failing.

Stephen told me he couldn't see me.  He came in the bar I was in, not 
writing a paper all night long, not being so busy he had not a moment to 
spare, not being what he had bothered to portray.  Apparently, he lied.

Maria