An Impenetrable Screen Of Purest Sky - Plot & Excerpts
She looked up. The voice in the air was her mother’s voice, seeming as if it were spoken from a cloud. Pearl?—the voice from the cloud asked. And she answered—“Yes, I’m here.” Pearl’s mother heard her daughter’s voice spoken as if from under the bed, but it sounded quieter, as if it were coming from far away. Her mother looked under the bed, and saw the heating duct’s hole. “Yes, I’m here” came out of the hole. Pearl’s mother thought her daughter was caught in the bowels of the house, searching for the pearl she had lost. Her mother inched under the bed, inched herself to the hole, and, surprised at how wide it was, bent her body down in it. “Pearl?” “Yes, I’m here.” And Pearl’s mother dropped herself in to find her. Her mother fell down the hole, but it was filled with water; she could breathe without breathing; she had no sense of panic. A picture in a frame fell through the water as an oak leaf falls off a tree, shuttling gently back and forth as it descended, a picture of a woman holding an umbrella, pink cheeks, looking gently down so that her eyes could not be seen; a picture of herself.
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