Amy Hempel, "What Were The White Things?"

She’s supposed to see the specialist but she wanders into an art lecture instead.

(from The Dog of the Marriage)

Well, it was so simple and so content to return to its central image, it could have been a song. “What Were The White Things?” was the chorus. The verses were about the slides of paintings and the X-rays of the narrator. So it had rhythm.

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