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Seeing Lily
a novel by Brian Hubbell
In an ice castle of verbal lapidary, two voices braid in an interrogatory of the imperfections of love and memory.
...Hidden, cupped or tumbling in the air, a pair of dice array an undifferentiated diamond. Two spinning cubes could be imagined as a single polyhedron of 36 equal faces each figuring a possible sum. Could be imagined, but not detailed. No such isohedron exists.
...the dice-face blank until they're read, you could say.
To cheat? ...Well, that presumes one cares to effect an outcome. And cheating of course requires another view. An opponent, perhaps a certain expectation. To varying consequence, a will may breathe lightly through the droplets in this atomized mist.
While the rest of the world hangs unaltered for an eon, its destroyer in abeyance, sequestered with her lover Siva, Parvati cheats at dice.
In the most pleasing throws, the dice just clip corners, translating one's spin on the first bounce into a ricochet-like leap far across the felt. The sound is pretty and engaging.
Does that not make you laugh?
If the Geodetic Survey were commissioned to map formative psychological wildernesses with a mule train outfitted only with the works of Jane Austen and a magnetic resonance imaging machine, Seeing Lily might have been one valiantly incompleted transect.
"So much for sums," he said.
"...And killing things by description. Things don't work like that," Lily said.
"No, they don't. Tell me about it. But it's still a sweet little story isn't it? Boy meets girl. Sparks fly. Nothing happens."
"Nothing happens?"
"Well, not exactly. It's just a synopsis. Just the pitch."
In this romance of errant manners that probes love's early eroded depositions through unreliable quicksands of overlying memory, each mineralized detail of apparent fact hangs recollected in fractal portent, only to dissolve under scrutiny, resisting every promising charge to substantiate as benchmark against the greater enduring landscapes of pathos and unsettled imagination.
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