Friday, July 18  

Cave

Vic remembers reading once that caves symbolize female genitalia. That to dream of a cave is to desire sex or, in a woman’s case, readmittance to the womb. She supposes if the woman is queer then it might still be about sex anyway.

cave: noun 1. a natural underground chamber, verb 2. to explore caves, 3. to cease to resist.

Vic has never been inside an actual cave. She’s gone down into the Sudbury mines, but that’s not proper caving. On a family trip to England, she got spooked in a dark hole called Wooky Hollow, but that wasn’t a cave either. Just a tourist attraction built into the side of a hill.

After 3 months, Vic caves and calls Jonathan. She doesn’t think about it, analyze it or talk herself out of it. She comes in from the backyard, wipes her hand across her sweaty upper lip and puts the phone to her ear.

When he answers she says, “Do you still want me?”