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Noah’s Wife

BY WENDY DREXLER

Noah, his swelled head, his ego larger than the ark, his crazy

self-promoting savior mania. Because of him we dropped

everything, sank our fortune in cypress wood, and every

filthy creature we couldn’t trap we had to buy with our last coin.

It was hell in there—the boars squalling and farting, ravens

cawing so loud I thought my eardrums would burst. And the snakes.

They terrified me, slithering in their hastily strapped-together cages.

The hippos bellowing and rolling in piss-soaked straw. The rabbits

breeding so fast they began to eat each other. Noah had to grab

my hand to stop me from killing the flies swarming my sweaty neck.

The peacocks dragging their dirty tails. All of us in that squalor,

and the floodwaters brimming with rotting flesh.

I was the one who slopped the decks and mopped and boiled

pots of lentil stew. Noah complained I didn’t put enough

salt on the eggs. As soon as we scraped the mountaintop,

I knew I’d leave him. I fled as fast as the dove he released,

the one that never came back. I guess I owe him for dragging me

away from home. I would have stayed and drowned with our

drunken friends. Instead I’ve spent these last peaceful years

in a small cottage, growing my own onions and flax, gathering

honey, collecting rainwater for my garden in a barrel of leftover

cypress I made with my own two hands.

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Dr. Bayo Akomolafe

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"We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of exploring and understanding all facets of our children’s development. If we can understand the underlying developmental process, we can see a child’s struggles as signs of striving toward growth instead of chronic problems or attempts to aggravate adults. "

Dr. Stanley Greenspan