Keywords
sonata, fiction
Document Type
Fiction
Description
I
Dolce
One of John’s earliest memories is her singing voice, sweet and pitted and gravely. Not in a deep, growling, Louis Armstrong kind of way, but in the way that water washes over sand—gentle, and just perfectly blemished by a pocked, rushing sound. Her voice, once beautiful and robust, was ever-after spoiled by a childhood bout of asthma, she said. But it was his mother’s voice that read to him every day. It was her voice that pushed him forward when he languished. And it was her lovely, flawed voice that sang him the English “ditties” that filled his head with the melodies and harmonies that would form his life.
Recommended Citation
Bee, Jeanine Eyre
(2024)
"Sonata in Three Movements,"
Inscape: Vol. 44:
No.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol44/iss1/5