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“Your father’s calling for you; Shekure。 We’re married now; you’re to kiss

his hand。”

The  handful  of  neighborhood  women  to  whom  Shekure  had  sent  last…

minute invitations and the young maidens I assumed were relatives motioned

to  collect  themselves  and  cover  their  faces;  all  the  while  scrutinizing  me  to

their heart’s content。

Not  long  after  the  evening  call  to  prayer  the  wedding  guests  dispersed;

having heartily partaken of the walnuts; almonds; dried fruit leather; fits

and clove candy。 In the women’s quarters; Shekure’s incessant crying and the

bickering of the unruly children had dampened the festivity。 Among the men;

my stony…faced silence in response to the mirthful wedding…night gibes of the

neighbors was attributed to my preoccupation with my father…in…law’s illness。

Amid all the distress; the scene most clearly ingrained in my memory was my

leading Shekure to Enishte’s room before dinner。 We were alone at last。 After

both of us kissed the dead man’s cold and rigid hand with sincere respect; we

withdrew to a dark corner of the room and kissed each other as if slaking a

great thirst。 Upon my wife’s fiery tongue; which I’d successfully taken into my

mouth; I could taste the hard candies that the children greedily ate。

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I; SHEKURE

The last guests of our woeful wedding veiled and covered themselves; put on

their shoes; dragged off their children; who were tossing a last piece of candy

into  their  mouths;  and  left  us  to  a  perating  silence。  We  were  all  in  the

courtyard;  nothing  could  be  heard  but  the  faint  noise  of  a  sparrow  gingerly

drinking water from the half…filled well bucket。 This sparrow; whose tiny head

feathers gleamed in the light of the stone hearth; abruptly vanished into the

blackness;  and  I  felt  the  insistent  presence  of  the  corpse  in  my  father’s  bed

within our emptied house; now swallowed by night。

“Children;” I said in the cadence Orhan and Shevket recognized as the one I

used to announce something; “e here; the both of you。”

They did so。

“Black is now your father。 Let’s see you kiss his hand。”

They did so; quietly and docilely。 “Since they’ve grown up without a father;

my unfortunate children know nothing of obeying one; of heeding his words

while looking into his eyes; or of trusting in him;” I said to Black。 “Thus; if they

behave  disrespectfully;  wildly;  immaturely  or  childishly  toward  you;  I  know

that  you’ll  show  them  tolerance  at  first;  understanding  that  they’ve  been

raised  without  ever  once  obeying  their  father;  whom  they  do  not  even

remember。”

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