CERPEN KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

THE GRAVE The Grandfather, dead for more than thirty years, had been twice disturbed in his long repose by the constancy and possessiveness of his widow. She removed his bones first to Louisiana and then to Texas as if she had set out to find her own burial place, knowing well she would never  return to the places she had left. In texas she set up a small cemetery in a corner of his farm, and as the family connection grew, and oddments of relations came over from Kentucky to settle, it contained at last about twenty graves. After...

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MENERKAMU

pagi-pagi ini aku ingin seaku kamu kita lupakan sudah waktu, tapi dengan cara seperti cahaya menumbuhkan biji kacang ijo di atas kapas. betapa sulit bukan? ah....kekasih, kekasih, panjangkanlah lenganmu, aku ingin mencintaimu. lebih tepatnya memelukmu, bersama penantian akhir tahun kita putar jam dinding sebalik-baliknya, secepat-cepatnya. kita tempelkan foto-foto di dinding kamar serapat-rapatnya; tapi sebenarnya aku ingin cium pipimu dengan degup cepat jantung ini ya, agar kita tahu lagi. siapa yang berulang tahun hari ini atau berapa lama...

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