The Trike Returns:
Knot
Theresa Hammond
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The Cord
Dangling from the window of room two in Swan Inn is a knot twisted into the cord of the blinds. The cord hangs against the cracked paint next to the queen-sized bed decorated by stained white sheets and a thick blue comforter.
The small space between the bed and wall is the little girls' favorite sleeping hole. She has been living in room two for almost a month with her mother. One day they were sleeping in alleyways and eating from dumpsters, and the next they were living in the inn and paying for one-meal-a-day at the diner across the street. Her mother is now the inn's housekeeper.
At night, she dresses in her footed pink pajamas and ducks into the corner. After her mother curls up under the comforter, the little girl lifts the blinds and watches the life-sized white swan on the street corner. She dreams of a large house with a swing set in the backyard. She twirls the cord between her small fingers. Soon the dreaming and twisting turns into a knot, which she holds in her fingertips and dreams of a puppy in the green grass behind the house.
~Theresa Hammond
Theresa Hammond lives in Cherryville, North Carolina where she cares for her five-month-old daughter and plays with words by moonlight. Email.
© 2002 by Theresa Hammond. All Rights Reserved.
© Copyright 2002 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.
This page updated August 31, 2002.